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[Bring Back The Bruise Bros]

A few months back, the players were talking about making a list of known divers. It was proposed that lists of divers be posted in every locking room to embarrass the mentioned players and force them to stop the exaggeration.

1. How should the NHL tackle the problem of diving and general exaggeration?
2. Create a league-wide list of known divers.

[rrasco]

1. Call it and not the 'false offense'.

2. Can they post GIFs in the locker rooms instead?

 

[irishock]

NBA is fining players right now for diving/flopping. Could the NHL do the same?

[GMRwings1983]

What's the point?  Everyone knows who these people are anyway.  No secret.  

 

I think the league just needs to return to regularly calling diving.  They went away from it since the lockout, and it's created more divers.  

[amato]

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="GMRwings1983" data-cid="2336978" data-time="1356745011"><p>
What's the point?  Everyone knows who these people are anyway.  No secret.  <br />
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I think the league just needs to return to regularly calling diving.  They went away from it since the lockout, and it's created more divers.  </p></blockquote>

Since the lockout/since Crosby entered the league.. How convenient.

Edit: i don't know what happened with the quote..?

Edited by amato, 28 December 2012 - 08:56 PM.

[The Axe]

I like how the linesman swooped in to stop Franzen from unleashing any fury. Another mouthguard removal might have ended Thornton's career.

[Marty Barry]

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="GMRwings1983" data-cid="2336978" data-time="1356745011"><p>
What's the point?  Everyone knows who these people are anyway.  No secret.  <br />
 <br />
I think the league just needs to return to regularly calling diving.  They went away from it since the lockout, and it's created more divers.  </p></blockquote>

Since the lockout/since Crosby entered the league.. How convenient.

Edit: i don't know what happened with the quote..?

This.  DUH!

[Barrie]

Make sure to include the entire 2009-10 Sharks team.

[Crymson]

Kesler, Burrows, the Sedins, Pavelski, Setoguchi, Brown, Crosby, Semin, Ribeiro... hmm...

[Hatethedrake!]

Forsberg, Kariya,...Oh you mean current players.  Any player with a Canucks or Sharks logo on it.

[cusimano_brothers]

Anyone else remember when this was proposed by the League? I do. The timing of it was, in a word, impeccable. 

The on-ice officials have to made aware of what goes on (if they aren't already), recognize who the guilty parties are and talk quietly amongst themselves in order to solve this problem.  Would the League appreciate it if a list was published of the worst on-ice officials?

[haroldsnepsts]

Yes the league should crack down on divers, but it happens so fast I don't know that you can rely on refs to handle it in games.  

 

I think the best way is to have a video official reviewing questionable plays after a game.  The on ice refs could even let them know which plays they want looked at it. 

 

But even then only the most extreme cases will get punished.  The stick not actually hitting Carcillo's face.  Kesler's ridiculous flop. 

 

Fining those guys even after games though should help.  They embarrass the refs and league with their antics, so they should be publicly embarrassed too. 

[rrasco]

I'm a supporter of the off-ice official.  Sometimes you just can't see what we can from the ice.

[55fan]

Anyone with kids should know how much trouble the officials have seeing everything as it happens.  They have to watch for a zillion things at once and try to catch it all.

 

Divers are like little kids.  Maybe they should have to sit in a corner for a couple of games if two minutes isn't enough.  When they can act like big boys, they can play with the big boys.

[Motown4013]

1. Call it and not the 'false offense'.

2. Can they post GIFs in the locker rooms instead?

 

 

This is my favorate "F'n Ridiculous" moment from Joe Thornton. Thanks for posting it!

[Crymson]

Fining those guys even after games though should help.  They embarrass the refs and league with their antics, so they should be publicly embarrassed too. 

 

Agreed. It's solution so simple and elegant  that I'm sure the NHL will never implement it.

[The Axe]

Yzerman used to flop a bit. Not as bad as Forsberg though.

[GoWings1905]

Franzen embellishes too. I do wish the NHL would try and clean up the diving. It has become soccer-like embarrassing from certain players and teams lately.

Edited by GoWings1905, 31 December 2012 - 09:38 PM.

[cusimano_brothers]

Diving is the easy way out. I hate it.

[kipwinger]

If we're going to let the game police itself when it comes to guys taking runs at one another, spot picking, dirty hits, etc. why not do the same thing with diving.  If you're playing a team with a notorious diver and he does it in the game, send a tough guy out to deal with it.  Every time Kessler or someone else on Vancouver dives I'd make it Jordin Tootoo's mission to punish someone, and let it be known what the reason was.