No his momentum was still forward when he collided with Phaneuf and after that happens his right knee is bent and all the weight is on it - these are NHL skaters and can easily recover with just the 1 leg already on the ice. There is no legit situation where any weight should be shifted to your other leg when all the weight is in your right leg. None. I'd like to see someone lean forward on a bent knee still having balance (or even falling to the toe of his skate (which he wasn't) and try to tell me there's any reason to swing your other leg completely behind you. It carries zero weight.
What he was doing, was trying to draw an interference call, obviously. This was as poor as Avery's dive when someone shot him from the rafters.
Seriously?
So because they are NHL skaters, they shouldn't be allowed to fall awkwardly? Man, you guys are....there are no words...
Half of this board can't skate, yet they feel they can judge what should or should not happen on a video, do you know if he a hit a rut in the ice? Do you know the ice conditions, I am not saying he dove or he did not dive, but for people to say 100% he dove because he was an NHL skater and it looked funny,...just...
Wow...
BTW, I don't think it was a dive, I believe he just didn't know what he wanted to do and ended up changing his mind, it's a helluva lot easier to take the fall in that situation that to try and plant a foot at the last second and risk tweaking something, but hell, you apparently are the expert...