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Originally Posted by Philly06Cup
Why is diving cheating. Why is it classless. Someone explain.
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Diving is a penalty under NHL rules. Therefore, to do it is cheating no different than tripping or hooking. If certain players constantly and obviously hooked other players and were never penalized for it, the argument would be the same. If Burrows slashed opposing players' sticks in half during every battle for the puck and wasn't being penalized it would be infuriating. There was a crackdown on obstruction and it lead to more diving. Now theres a crackdown on diving.
People would probably not be so mad about it if it wasn't seemingly increasing AND if it was actually penalized more often. These retroative fines/shaming is fine, but penalizing in-game would be much more affective IMO.