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Originally Posted by Corral
If that was a Flames player on the receiving end of the check, my bet is you would be outraged.
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I might be concerned if a Flames player was injured, sure. But I certainly wouldn't be outraged by the play itself, as that hit was about as clean as they come. It's unfortunate that the guy was injured and I'm glad he's gonna be ok. But there was absolutely nothing wrong with what Gio did there.
As mentioned countless times in this thread already, Aho basically ran into Gio with his head down coming through centre ice. If you're not gonna keep your head up while trying to execute a play like that, you're just asking to get rocked. There was nothing else Gio could have done in that situation as a defenceman who is trying to prevent a scoring chance. The hit was clean. End of story.