Tag: Sebastian Aho

The Islanders scored a goal after the puck deflected off Sebastian Aho’s face and it looked so painful

Thankfully, Sebastian Aho seemed to be okay after this nasty puck to the face.

The Carolina Hurricanes and Sebastian Aho paid a heavy price for this goal against.

During Tuesday’s Game 5 of the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs between the Hurricanes and New York Islanders, the worst case scenario happened for the home team. The Islanders — down 3-1 in the series — held a 1-0 lead as the second period began, looking to stave off elimination in the first round.

Unfortunately for the Hurricanes, the Islanders doubled up their lead to 2-0 after a fortuitous bounce made its way past Antti Raanta. The bounce in question, however, came off of Aho — no, not that one — who was standing guard in front of the net for the Hurricanes when he took a puck to the face before Brock Nelson was able to tap it home.

Warning: The video below features the sight of blood.

Thankfully, Aho returned to the Hurricanes bench later in the second period as he appeared to shrug off any significant injury after that scary incident. Talk about terrible luck all around for Aho and the Hurricanes.

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Sebastian Aho absolutely leveled Sebastian Aho with a punishing hit that broke the space-time continuum

Sebastian Aho put a punishing hit on … Sebastian Aho during Canes-Islanders on Monday night.

Hockey fans had to do a double take during Monday night’s NHL playoffs bout between the New York Islanders and Carolina Hurricanes.

As the two teams squared off at Carolina’s PNC Arena to start the first round, Hurricanes center Sebastian Aho put a punishing hit on, you guessed it, New York Islanders defenseman Sebastian Aho as the game ran through its final minutes.

If you weren’t aware, there are two players named Sebastian Aho in the NHL, and worlds collided for the two hockey players in the most hilarious way possible.

Carolina’s Sebastian Aho got a pretty good move on New York’s Sebastian Aho in that sequence, and we’re betting New York’s Sebastian Aho will want to return the favor on Carolina’s Sebastian Aho in the next meeting.

The “Sebastian Aho playoff series” as it will now forever be called saw its first game go to Carolina, which means one of the Sebastian Ahos was victorious while the other will be looking to even things out in the next game.

NHL fans were delighted as the Hurricanes trolled the Canadiens after offer sheeting Jesperi Kotkaniemi

We love a good revenge offer sheet.

Oh, how the tables have turned.

It’s been some time since we’ve had any fun hockey news to talk about, with the NHL offseason still in full swing. But on Saturday, the Carolina Hurricanes dropped a major news bomb on us all out of nowhere with the announcement of an offer sheet to Montreal Canadiens forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi.

In simple terms, any player that is a restricted free agent in hockey who receives a qualifying offer from their team or doesn’t go to arbitration can be tenured an offer sheet. An offer sheet is essentially just a contract offered to a player from another team, one their original team must match or they lose their player.

On Saturday, the Hurricanes tenured an offer sheet to Kotkaniemi for a one-year, $6,100,015 million contract, which carries a $20 signing bonus. The Canadiens have seven days to match the contract and if they don’t, they lose Kotkaniemi but receive a first and a third round pick in the 2022 NHL Draft as compensation.

Offer sheets are a rarity in the NHL, because they are frowned upon by other GMs even though they are very useful and underutilized tools in the league. But why is this offer sheet special? Well, two years ago, the Canadiens tenured an offer sheet to Hurricanes forward Sebastian Aho, one which Carolina eventually matched themselves.

So, of course, the Hurricanes went full troll mode on the Canadiens after announcing the offer sheet, first by tweeting out the announcement in French, as the Canadiens Twitter often does.

Then, they continued to troll on Twitter with some memes.

And then, people came to the realization that the $20 signing bonus corresponds to Aho’s player number, No. 20.

That, right there, is some top-tier trolling from Hurricanes general manager Don Waddell and the team’s social media staff. Hockey fans were over the moon with the incredible display of pettiness the Hurricanes put forth on this revenge offer sheet.