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Originally Posted by WhiteTiger
Over on the HF boards tonight, the Coiler fans are whining about how they "need to start diving" to draw PP's "like all those other teams do against us.", how they "never get more than 2 PP's/game" and how every other team always "lays down against any team not us, but shows up and plays us like it's their Stanley Cup". Also how McDiver is "too stupid or too good to dive" to draw PP's...
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Disgusting. This mentality in fans is how you get to what you see in soccer. Not a soccer fan at all but I have worked with big time soccer fans who accept diving as “part of the game”. It’s ridiculous. It’s not embarrassing to them that the players they cheer for are diving and whining all the time… it’s “part of the game”. I fear that hockey is approaching that too if it isn’t already at that point. It started with the Canucks in their 2010-2011 season - the worst team of divers I have ever seen in the NHL… and, ever since then, it has become more and more acceptable to fans.
For a fanbase like the oilers who have been given the biggest NHL-franchise welfare cheques of any team in sports history (4 first overall picks in 6 years including a generational offensive player)… to complain about not getting the calls or breaks to go their way… also embarrassing. Not to mention this year having what I consider to be one of the easiest regular season schedules I can ever remember.
They also really lucked out and had a lot of things line up for them on their win streak… every time I looked at who they were going to be playing during that streak it was either a bottom-feeder of a team or a playoff team that was in the midst of a bad losing streak. Virtually every time. Can annyone name a team that was playing their best hockey of the season leading up to facing Edmonton during that streak? Maybe Calgary? And they are not a playoff team so I can’t say that counts. Obviously, you have to win the games and it’s still an impressive run, but I really think everything that could come together for them did on that run of games.