What is with all the diving?

Blackjack
11-12-2003, 07:34 PM
Ok, I'm starting to get fed up. First it was Gary Roberts slashing Colin White and breaking his nose, then when White goes back to jab him, Roberts looks like he just got shot in the chest.

Tonight, Gomez is trying to get a puck in the slot, is tied up with a defensman, puts on the brakes and bumps Marty Biron, who goes down like a ton of bricks.

Then, Friesen is skating past Biron, I don't even know if he touched him, but Biron leaps into the air, throws his stick behind the goal and belly flops in the crease.

As disgusting and ****less as it is to dive...what the hell are the officials looking at? It's one thing if the players are at least selling the dive, but these guys are terrible actors. I mean, it looks like a The Harlem Globetrotters on ice or something.

Why can't these officials call a dive on a goalie without calling co-incedental minors? Let me tell you somthing, the diving will stop real quick when goalies start causing shorthanded situations.

I don't know, diving has always been a problem, but this year it just seems like it's all over the place.

Unthinkable
11-12-2003, 07:42 PM
Biron's antics tonight would have made Wile E. Coyote proud. Devils should have had a few more power plays in this one.

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BG43
11-12-2003, 09:15 PM
Don't be hatin' :cry:

NJDevs430
11-13-2003, 06:21 AM
Maybe Biron grew up idolizing Hasek...either that, or Bill Shatner is giving acting lessons to Buffalo's goalies.
How's the community theatre in western New York?
}:-)>

Unthinkable
11-13-2003, 11:22 AM
No doubt. The guy looked like a twig in an F5 tornado on both bumps. Sorry BG43. No hating here, but its the truth.

cxreg
11-13-2003, 12:23 PM
You mean like the way Gionta took a belly flop when Weinrich bumped him in the Philly game, leading to a game-tying powerplay?

Yeah, that was classy.

NJ_Devil_Boy
11-13-2003, 02:35 PM
Unfortunately, it's not a (diving) penalty unless a ref calls it....