I took a peek in a couple of Kings forums, and discovered that letsgokings.com has a great series called "what they're saying", quotes from the Canucks board.
This is game 2 and pre-game. I thought it was kinda interesting.
http://letsgokings.com/f4/what_theyr...on-384457.html
Quote:
-Stay disciplined! No more diving!
- please don't embarrass yourself this time, kesler, and play your game. Create havoc around the net, make some plays, shoot, etc. This goes for henrik as well regarding the diving. I don't want to see any embellishment or diving in this game. It was embarrassing to watch.
- Kesler needs to stop with the obvious embellishing.
- Beyond disgusted with Kesler's play last night. I don't even care if we lose, the Kings are a good team, but to lose like that is just godawful to watch.
- He's my favorite Canuck, but call a spade a spade. He needs to focus more on hockey and less on trying to draw penalties/being aggravating. IIRC, he didn't pull any of that crap when he was shutting down Toews last year, so why start now?
- (regarding the kesler somersault dive): No idea. That's the most disheartening thing I've seen as a Canucks fan since probably game 7 against Boston.
- Kesler needs to focus on skating and not drawing calls
- The Canucks diving really pissed me off last night.
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And that was just from the pre-game. Reading that there's certainly lot of Canucks fans either in denial, accepting or even encouraging this behavior.
But there is also clearly a part of their fanbase that's pretty fed up with the diving.