Also, it comes down to when and how you do it.
Last 5 minutes of a tie game, Tkachuk gets two minor penalties. The Flames kill them off and they are in the dying seconds before OT.
Wild player hits Gio in the chin with his fist/stick. Definitely should be a penalty. Giordano helps ensure the refs see it in order to give them an easy call for a make-up penalty.
If you dive all the time, you're a filthy, slimy diver.
If you accent a play once in a while, at a key moment in the game, you are an intelligent player.
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