With respect for the diving. The Oilers spent too much time doing this in the regular season, and frankly officials watch videos and talk. The golden rule is don't do something that makes the refs look stupid. The Oilers continually did that in the regular season. In the playoffs the refs stopped calling the tippy tacky stuff.
Its similar to the Canucks a few years ago, they dove all over the ice in the regular season, and tried it in the playoffs. And eventually we saw the Sedins getting punched in the mouth over and over again in the playoffs with no calls.
When a team lives and dies on a power play because they suck 5v5 and a big part of their strategy is diving. The refs catch on.
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