{"id":21654,"date":"2018-01-15T20:25:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T01:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=21654"},"modified":"2018-01-15T22:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T03:54:06","slug":"sebastian-aho-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/01\/15\/sebastian-aho-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Aho Sidelined Indefinitely With A Concussion And Lower-body injury."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/hurricanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> announced that right winger <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=ahose01,ahose02&amp;search=Sebastian+Aho&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sebastian Aho<\/a><\/strong> is sidelined\u00a0indefinitely with a concussion and lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Canes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Canes<\/a> forward <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SebastianAho?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SebastianAho<\/a> has been diagnosed with a concussion and a lower-body injury, both of which were sustained vs. CGY. He will be out indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canes\/status\/953036469664407553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Sebastian Aho Injured<\/h1>\n<p>This injury occurred\u00a0early in the third period of the Hurricanes last game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_self\">Calgary Flames<\/a>. As\u00a0Aho was cutting across the front of the Flames net with the puck,\u00a0 defenceman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/giordma01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Giordano<\/a><\/strong> came to meet him with a high shoulder challenge. This also resulted in a knee-on-knee collision. He was assisted off the ice and did not return. Giordano was given a match penalty and a five-minute major for the hit but will not face supplementary discipline.<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, the young Fin has scored 16 goals and 24 assists for 37 points. Making him the leader in goals and points for the team. He also has added 14 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers were 53.9 percent Ccorsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of 0.1.<\/p>\n<p>Over his two year NHL career, Aho has only ever played for the\u00a0Carolina Hurricanes. He was drafted by Carolina in the second round of the 2015 NHL Draft. He has put up 40 goals and 46 assists for 86 career points in 127 career games.<\/p>\n<p>Coach <strong>Bill Peters<\/strong> spoke in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/hurricanes\/video\/postgame-quotes-vs-cgy\/t-277443406\/c-56676303\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">post-game interview\u00a0<\/a>about the hit stating:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, there\u2019s some head contact. I don\u2019t know there was much intent, to be honest with you. I thought (Giordano\u2019s) arm was tucked in low. But it ended up catching him in the head, so unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>Losing their\u00a0top scorer will be a big loss for the Canes, who currently stand a chance at a Metropolitan Wild Card Spot. With no definitive\u00a0player available to step up and immediately replace Aho on that right side, it may be difficult for them to achieve the big wins they need to secure their place. Carolina now has their five-day break so hopefully, this will minimize the amount of time he misses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the Carolina Hurricanes announced that right winger Sebastian Aho is sidelined\u00a0indefinitely with a concussion and lower-body injury. #Canes forward @SebastianAho has been diagnosed with a concussion and a lower-body injury, both of which were sustained vs. CGY. He will be out indefinitely. &mdash; Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) January 15, 2018 Sebastian Aho Injured This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2344,"featured_media":3401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,34],"tags":[136,705],"class_list":["post-21654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hurricanes","category-news","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-sebastian-aho"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}