Originally Posted by
hockey216
Not anywhere even remotely close to the level that vancouver does it. vancouver has several players do it every single night. Burrows, Lapierre, and the Sedin sisters are notorious for it. In game 1 vs. the Kings alone, Lapierre or Kessler went diving on a play, Burrows went diving on a play, and Henrik Sedin went diving on a play. They even highlighted the dives on NBC sports network. That's 3 major dives by 3 different players in 1 game. and the playoffs just started!!! and those were just the major ones. It's sickening! The playoffs have hardly even started and Vancouver's ruining them already!
Their coach Alain needs to step up, be a man, and take control of his team! He needs to say, "Enough of this shit! Stop acting like fuking pussies! play hockey like a man! stop the diving!" That's what Claude Julien would tell the bruins if the whole team was diving every game. I don't see Lucic or Chara or Shawn Thornton diving every game. Vancouver embellishes and dives more than any other team in the nhl. its not even close.
It upsets me that Alain is content with the diving. It almost makes me feel like he endorses it. he probably tells his players to do it just to try to gain a powerplay advantage. What a cheap, whimpy, sissy, phoney way to try to win games. What a pitiful way to ruin the sport as well.
The level of diving that vancouver does is just sickening. Its bad for the sport. Hockey tv ratings are hurting enough already. teams like vancouver that ruin the game make it even more miserable for fans to watch and just kill the sport even more.