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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Just because a player dives from a hook, doesn't mean the hook didn't happen. I'm all in favour of both being called if both happened. Never understood the fury some have for not just calling the dive.
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But if the point is to curb diving as much as possible, you need to make this change regardless IMO.
I hear this reasoning a lot, and while it's true, if someone feels the need to embellish the penalty is either a) not enough to actually impede the player, hence the need for a dive. Or b) there, but the player has decided himself that what happened might not have been enough to warrent a penalty and so they dive.
I think what enrages people the most is that many teams employ people who will fight through those weak checks and not end up with powerplays. So why are the players who are purposefully falling being rewarded moreso than the people actually fighting though the checks, as the game is designed?
High sticking with blood is auto 4 min. Make diving auto 4 min and even when there's an offset, there will still be a PK to the diving team. Diving is as bad as it is because players know more often than not they get a 4 on 4 AT WORST. If that's the worst in-game punishment for diving, why wouldn't you do it?
If it were me, it would be a gross misconduct. But I absolutely despize diving.