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Originally Posted by Flames89
I am not so sure about the tripping modifications. It is an exciting hockey play when a player has to dive and knock the puck away from an opposing player (when done cleanly, sometimes it is just a trip-in-disguise). Every time that happens the other play will now "trip" on the stick, making it a penalty--turning the hero into the goat.
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That would be a dive.
The intent of this rule is for those plays where the defender slides into the body of the attacking player and takes them down. Previously that was not a penalty if he got the puck first.