It’s true though. For a figure skater he actually is off balance quite a bit and falls down all the time. He does the ten to two/mohawk style of skating the current generation is amazing at, and despite his athletic ability he always seems like he’s about to fall over. I’m not saying this fine is off base. Just that the the theory he must be diving because of his skating issue is surprisingly off base.
I mean - fining for diving is great in my opinion - but I'm not going to lie, it feels a little bit wacky that this is what's getting a fine.
Literally he just falls and gets back up and keeps playing. Didn't even look like he was looking for a call?
I feel like there's more egregious dives with head snaps and litigious arguments with refs in almost every game.
But far from me to get offended on behalf of thousands of a multimillionaires dollars.
About the same time the Divalanche started and they won a Cup with it. Can’t blame NHL teams for evening the playing field.
What do you think he’s doing when he gets up and looks back at the ref as he skates away?
? There is zero diving in figure skating, and there's no incentive to dive in it, either.
I think it’s because he embellished and then had the balls to look back at the ref like he missed a call lol
Nah, that's too difficult to determine consistently (as if that ever mattered) because it can just be a natural reaction to something coming near your face.
This is utterly ridiculous, because when anything hard comes flying withing a couple inches of your face, only an idiot wouldn't try to get their face out of the way asap.
He doesn’t dive. Simple as that.
Huh?
If you call it “embellishment” and it is called embellishment. It should be considered a dive if a player Hams it up after getting a stick tap to the face. Not saying that Rants did this though; cause I think there was enough force with his own dumb ass stick hitting himself to warrant the reaction.
