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Aho collides with Adam Fox; Fox leaves game with injury (Fox placed on LTIR)

So to me, it looks like Aho stops in the middle of Fox’s lane and then Fox tries to avoid him by cutting back the other way. If Fox doesn’t cut back, they collide head on instead of leg-on-leg.

This is part of what the Canes do. They follow the old Detroit “legal interference” model and they do it well. Nothing about the legs colliding seems intentional to me, though.
 
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Bankers Box said:
Aho is a pretty dirt rat but this doesn’t look like he kneed Fox, just an awkward and unfortunate play.
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Oh ya, he’s known league wide as a pretty big piece of shit so it’s no surprise he tried to kill Fox here.

catnip said:
I don't even need to see the video. Only 75 replies this many hours after the fact tells me there was nothing untoward about the collision.
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I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a thread about a “dirty hit” where this many people shared the same view. Opinions are usually pretty well split but here virtually everyone thinks it was a nothing play with an unfortunate outcome. I think that’s pretty telling because when the hell does everyone ever agree on hf?
 
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AlaBlueShirt said:
Finnish fans playing mental gymnastics lol. He is moving towards him and def trying to bump him but there isn’t any purpose of him trying to hurt Fox.
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Care to tell me which player is stucking his leg out? To me, it looks like Aho stands and Fox is extending his leg while moving forward..

ItWasJustified said:
What the hell was Aho thinking there? Definitely looked like he tried to interfere. The puck was a mile away.
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Which player is extending his leg while moving forward? Looking at the replay will help!
 
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Tawnos said:
So to me, it looks like Aho stops in the middle of Fox’s lane and then Fox tries to avoid him by cutting back the other way. If Fox doesn’t cut back, they collide head on instead of leg-on-leg.

This is part of what the Canes do. They follow the old Detroit “legal interference” model and they do it well. Nothing about the legs colliding seems intentional to me, though.
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Laughable take. First of all, almost every team does the "pick play", even my Canes, but Canes don't really do it that often compared to most teams (go watch Tampa) because we don't really have the physicality to do it...our guys would get bowled over more often than not. Second, watch again. Aho is skating towards the middle to cover his area of the ice, he sees Fox moving in that path, he tries to turn and stop to avoid/minimize the collision, but Fox was puck focused while on a collision path and at the last second tries to cut (hence his leg extension) but it was too late. Both tried to avoid contact but it just happened too fast. Fox took the worst because he was in an odd position and didn't see it in time, and Aho saw it just soon enough that he basically locked up and braced for contact.
 
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FoxyClean said:
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Honestly, I couldn't tell if he really stuck out his leg on the initial view. I know a lot of my fellow NYR fans felt he did, but it appeared more of just getting in his way then attempting to stick his leg out. Watching the replay, I still don't see it. I don't see Fox ticking out his leg either as it appears Fox is trying to push off to the left around him, more than sticking out his leg.

With that said, Aho is looking at Fox who doesn't have the puck. He gets in his way, whether he's on his edges, cutting back, or simply wrong place at the wrong time. It's interference, accidental or not. Fox not bracing for a hit and trying to go around him doesn't change that. It's an uncalled penalty with an unfortunate ending. Nothing more.
 
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WreckingCrew said:
Laughable take. First of all, almost every team does the "pick play", even my Canes, but Canes don't really do it that often compared to most teams (go watch Tampa) because we don't really have the physicality to do it...our guys would get bowled over more often than not. Second, watch again. Aho is skating towards the middle to cover his area of the ice, he sees Fox moving in that path, he tries to turn and stop to avoid/minimize the collision, but Fox was puck focused while on a collision path and at the last second tries to cut (hence his leg extension) but it was too late. Both tried to avoid contact but it just happened too fast. Fox took the worst because he was in an odd position and didn't see it in time, and Aho saw it just soon enough that he basically locked up and braced for contact.
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Fox wasn't initially skating into the middle, so your "Aho see Fox moving in the path to the middle" is looking too late in the sequence of events. He made a move towards the boards and changed direction when Aho stopped in his path. If Aho doesn't stop, there would've barely been contact, if any contact at all.

This wasn't a "pick play." This was an attempt to use positioning to ensure there'd be at least some contact, which is what legal interference is. Admittedly, it's easier to see this when other teams do it than the one we're rooting for and I couldn't honestly speak to how much the Rangers do it. Relative to the other opponents the Rangers face, the Canes definitely employ it a lot. Tampa does too, but the level to which the Lightning and Canes do this is indistinguishable.
 
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I'm not sure where Aho was going on this play. The puck and play have both moved behind him yet he keeps gliding forward into Fox.

It wasn't dirty, but it was either intentionally getting in the way of Fox, so interference, or just a braindead player in his own zone not knowing where he is going. I will take the former, Aho isn't an idiot.
 
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2014nyr said:
tell yourself whatever you want to tell yourself. he wanted to get a piece of fox and got him with his knee, didn't mean to, but that's what he did. fox is obviously a pretty important player for the rangers, any team is gonna be understandably pretty pissed off about that scenario playing out with their best player being injured. if someone asks the guy involved to go, most have the balls to understand the situation and oblige. it's not like he was doing anything anyway...not sure the canes woulda noticed if he sat in the box for 5 mins...and if he's scared of getting hurt he shouldn't be out there in the first place.
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Just stop while you’re behind, you’re making yourself look worse with each post
 
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I don’t see how anyone can say this wasn’t dirty. Didn’t you all see when he took out a sword and swung it at Fox’s leg!?
 
bigdog16 said:
I'm not sure where Aho was going on this play. The puck and play have both moved behind him yet he keeps gliding forward into Fox.

It wasn't dirty, but it was either intentionally getting in the way of Fox, so interference, or just a braindead player in his own zone not knowing where he is going. I will take the former, Aho isn't an idiot.
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Again, Carolina plays man-to-man. Aho is staying close to Fox because leaving Fox wide open with no one near him is a recipe for a goal against. Do you expect every player on the ice to chase whoever has the puck at the time?
 
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Theres been dirtier hits this season that the league ignored. I wouldn’t even consider this dirty. I would just consider this Adam Fox trying to run from contact from the hulking goon in (the other) Sebastian Aho.
 
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