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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Agreed. The homer glasses are on in full force here. He dives. He whines to the refs. He does it regularly. We all know it. No one should be at all surprised this is the result. Yes it sucks he gets hacked and slashed every game. But this is the reality of the NHL in 2017. Calls don't always go your way, and reputations are a very real thing.
Just because he is a Flame and our star player does not absolve him of what he sometimes does (ie. dive). He needs to stop the whining and stop the diving. The last thing I want is our team having a reputation for being a bunch of Canuck-like divers. I love him as a player. But this is the worst thing about him lMO
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Yes.
Except for one small item...
All kinds of people across the league dive, and all kinds whine to the refs.
No one is arguing that Johnny isn't guilty of those things.
The frustration comes from the fact that the refs seem to single him out in a very unfair and unbalanced way.
If he were a rare diver/whiner I could understand the message the refs were trying to send. But what we have is an epidemic problem, but only one guy who is being singled out by the refs.
THAT'S the problem people have.