"I know the reputation from the outside looking in, when I wasn't coaching here, everybody outside thought Vancouver dove and did some whining," Tortorella said. "Our team is not going to dive. Our team has already been talked to. We're not going to dive. I don't think there is much whining going on either.
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"I know the reputation from the outside looking in, when I wasn't coaching here, everybody outside thought Vancouver dove and did some whining," Tortorella said. "Our team is not going to dive. Our team has already been talked to. We're not going to dive. I don't think there is much whining going on either.
I cannot wait to send this to every slimy Canucks fan I know. That statement all but confirms it was ingrained in the culture, and all the dive denier scumbag Canucks fans have been wrong all along.
I frikkin love The Fonz.
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See I'm watching that gif over and over and Nielsen clearly hit him in the head. He lifted up his elbow when doing it, you can't see if the elbow made contact but something did. Now, he didn't hit him in the head very hard, and Kesler clearly embellishes it to draw the penalty (puts hand on face) but it's not a dive. Nielsen committed a penalty. In this case it was a head shot.
Exhibit 13,422 as to why I hate supplemental discipline being so concerned with suspending to the injury. It wouldn't have required much to go differently for that to end up causing a concussion. This is a situation where the reputation of the player who went down in Kesler is distracting from a potentially dangerous play and everyone's letting Nielsen off the hook.
EDIT: Here's a youtube clip with a couple of angles and I see nothing that would change my mind on the above - with the exception that it wasn't an elbow. It's his shoulder that makes contact.
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I read that Mooney story this morning. What a sad dive that was.
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I cannot wait to send this to every slimy Canucks fan I know. That statement all but confirms it was ingrained in the culture, and all the dive denier scumbag Canucks fans have been wrong all along.
I frikkin love The Fonz.
I thought i was the only one to notice the Fonz made his way to coaching in the NHL
See I'm watching that gif over and over and Nielsen clearly hit him in the head. He lifted up his elbow when doing it, you can't see if the elbow made contact but something did. Now, he didn't hit him in the head very hard, and Kesler clearly embellishes it to draw the penalty (puts hand on face) but it's not a dive. Nielsen committed a penalty. In this case it was a head shot.
Exhibit 13,422 as to why I hate supplemental discipline being so concerned with suspending to the injury. It wouldn't have required much to go differently for that to end up causing a concussion. This is a situation where the reputation of the player who went down in Kesler is distracting from a potentially dangerous play and everyone's letting Nielsen off the hook.
EDIT: Here's a youtube clip with a couple of angles and I see nothing that would change my mind on the above - with the exception that it wasn't an elbow. It's his shoulder that makes contact.
shoulder to shoulder IMO
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Diving days are over for the Canucks
