Biggest diver on your NHL team?

[FlyTimmo]

No one on the Flyers are major divers, but I feel Giroux or Rinaldo will embellish the most.

 

[MuffinMerc]

Giordano. I've seen him grab other players sticks trying to get a hooking call countless times last season.

 

[Systemfel]

What? He hasn't dove once while on the Blues. He's just weak on his skates.

I only watched bits of STL/NYR and STL/NJ, but managed to catch these.

07:26 NYR Kevin Hayes Hooking against Joakim Lindstrom

11:12 NJD Adam Larsson Holding against Joakim Lindstrom

Those were flops. He was a top-2 diver in the SHL, so no surprise.

 

[ottawa]

Gallagher?

Plekanec dives like a clown frequently.

Anyway, I'd say Brassard or Hagelin are the worst on the Rangers. would have been Callahan before we rid ourselves of him.

Is this a joke?

Gallagher, Emelin and Subban are some of the leagues biggest divers.



Not even close. The 3 mentioned above dive way more than Pacs. Pacs doesn't care enough to dive.

Andrei Markov, too.

You're kidding, right?

hilarious post...

2 players called for dives last night. I would say for the hawks Shaw

In b4 montreal doesn't have one



oh wait, no im not.

I get it, my post was a little premature and written without sufficient thought. Thanks for the kind comments though

 

[The Macho King]

Giordano. I've seen him grab other players sticks trying to get a hooking call countless times last season.

Not a Flames fan, so I don't want to get accused of homering here...

That walks the line for me of gamesmanship versus diving. It's like with goalies - I give them a big pass when it comes to flopping around. I know it's a BS line to draw in a lot of ways, but holding a stick or causing an opponents stick to ride up to hit your visor or something like that... Meh, I'm okay with that.

 

[Analyzer*]

"There's no one who really stands out..."

Please, every team has divers on it. If you don't think your team has one, you're not objective enough to discuss anything hockey related.

 

[GodHatesTheSharks]

Couture or probably Thornton.

 

[kmad]

Haven't seen Kesler dive yet. Quite honestly none of our players dive with any regularity. And that's not like team defending I just don't see it as very commonplace with anyone. I hate diving enough to admit if one of our players made a bad habit about it.

I don't watch the Ducks but I hear Perry has a reputation. Or is that like the Burrows reputation where people call him a diver because they hate him?

 

[Evil Little]

"There's no one who really stands out..."

Please, every team has divers on it. If you don't think your team has one, you're not objective enough to discuss anything hockey related.

Help us out, then--who is it on the Jets?

(Realizing, of course, that you probably don't give a **** about the Jets.)

 

[phil7488]

Garbutt. Not a real issue in Dallas though but it happens on every team.

 

[Bizz]

Couture by far.

 

[Diamondillium]

Perron has the entire team covered for reaching the team-wide minimum diving quota.

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

Montreal : Gallagher, Plekanec and Subban embellish sometimes.
Washington : Maybe Green ?

 

[SpooKy]

Kings fans here to inform the world that even LA fans agree that Dustin Brown has brittle skates.

 

[Ho Borvat]

I was expecting more posts saying "my team doesn't dive".

Every team is guilty, so its always been my pet peeve that a team gets that label placed on them when every team has 1-2 guys who are guilty.

Ours would be Burrows.. but I can't honestly remember the last dive I would have seen. Really haven't seen any diving since the days of AV (that I can recall). I think AV may have encouraged players to try and milk a call.

 

[SirPaste]

What? He hasn't dove once while on the Blues. He's just weak on his skates.

He has dove a couple times, notably against the Rangers the other night

 

[detredWINgs]

It's somewhat refreshing to know that goaltenders dress up calls too. In a weird way I guess.

Refreshing? Goaltenders are the absolute worst. ALL of them dive because they know how many gratuitous goaltender interference calls they can get. It's disgusting how often they go down like they've been shot despite the fact that their entire anatomy is conditioned to cranking their knees up and down.

 

[Mighty Chin]

I'm baffled by people thinking Burrows dives. I can't think of ever seeing a blatant dive by him. Kesler sure he would do it.

Maybe Burr embellished a few hooks but that is not diving. It's making sure the Ref notices the infraction.

 

[Tom ServoMST3K]

Scheifele needs to stay on his skates better, but I think he is just unbalanced.

 

[Primary Assist]

I don't know if he's the biggest diver on the Leafs but JvR can go down real easily sometimes for such a strong skater

 

[Mr Clutch]

Lundqvist. Love the guy but if any one touches him he acts like he got blown up by a grenade haha

 

[BGIGZ]

The Bruins like to think they don't dive.

However, Marchand takes the cake.

 

[Disappearing Semin]

For Montreal , we have different tiers:

Subban , Emelin

Gallagher, Prust,

Weaver, Plekanec, Pacioretty, Desharnais

 

[CaptainChef]

What dive are you referring to?

I only recall him diving a couple times and even then one of them (the one below) is extremely debatable



He was the only one that got a penalty on this btw lol

Gallagher diving like he got shot against Wpg

 

[CaptainChef]

I know you hate emelin, but I dont think I've ever seen him dive lol.
Paccioretty dived that one time a few games ago.
So he has more then emelin

all these 1-time only divers for Mont lol - rest of the league has no trouble finding a bunch of divers in your squad