Perhaps.
Though I’m sure you must understand how people might question Tkachuk’s sincerity? He’s certainly earned such suspicion.
- Wildschwein
As a Calgary fan in Ontario I definitely understand the skepticism of this play due to chucky’s reputation. To me the fact that this appears to be a knee injury for sheif is the most telling part. We don’t see where chucky’s foot landed but if it was a blatant kick it would have been an Achilles ala Cooke on Karlsson.
In chucky’s position that play happens in every game you see, he was already in contact with scheif when he tried to dodge the hit, in a normal play scheif’s body would have been the main point of contact but with that dodge all of tkachuck’s force went into scheif’s left leg.
If you slo mo it it looks bad but in real speed the determining factors are where both players were at the beginning of the play and the end. My words may carry no weight in the words of jets fans but if it was what they say it was scheif would have been clutching his ankle on the play not his knee