it's bush-league BS
what damage does it do? it can give the diving team a power play if the refs miss the dive, which can have a tremendous effect on the outcome of a game.
duh?
Wrong call, IMO. It wasn't a dive. He was actually trying to knee the ice.
I'll never really understand the witch hunt against diving/embellishing.
Yes it looks kinda dumb, but what damage does it do really? No players gets injured. Refs see it more often then not, especially if the player has a reputation for it. I don't think it has particularly become worst then it used to. I also don't think it ruin the integrity or reputation of the sport, I mean, there's embellisment in other healthy sports and a highlight of a player diving makes the player look foolish, not the league.
Plus, everyone likes to watch diving highlights.
The reason the league waited until now to finally have its first public announcement is that it gave its system a dry run early in the season. The league gave players free passes, or mulligans if you will, but also were informing teams and players of how this was going to work once it became public. The other reason for the dry run in October and part of November was for the league to get right how it wanted to handle this.
The real deal began in the fifth week of the season with every player in the league having a clean state from that point on.
The league has a "tagging system" in place:
-- Any dive called on the ice is clipped and cataloged
-- Any potential dive that isn’t called on the ice but seen by the war room is also cataloged
-- All of these dive clips are distributed to nine individuals in Hockey Ops and NHL Player Safety and critiqued. Each of the nine members vote as to whether the tagged play was worthy of a dive/embellishment call. At least six votes are needed to qualify the play as being a dive/embellishment.
you axed a silly question:Don't duh me if you want to have a discussion about it.
if he drew a PP against yr team by diving and they scored the gamewinner on that PP, that's yr "damage." And then maybe you miss the playoffs by a point or 2? mucho "damage."Yes it looks kinda dumb, but what damage does it do really?
So glad i don't have to defend this guy anymore
James Neal is out sick , not playing against the Wild.
The NHL will fine him $5,000 for possibly having the mumps.
Boston and Philly fans can't believe he has not recieved a call from the league yet.