Jeff Skinner fined for multiple dives

[Tob]

This isn’t about the money. This is about a player and a team’s reputation in general for future officiating purposes. You don’t want to be the guy in the room that will cause your team to receive less favorable calls because you were shamed for diving.

 

[Muffin]

It's a blatant interference penalty. Bet it wasn't called tho.

Lmao right, so is this one right? Funny how the best skater in the league falls down like a sack of shit when he feels like it

 

[TheNumber4]

No this is a dive.

Show the clip starting a couple seconds ahead and it’s obvious interference too. Robertson gets in his lane, breaks his stride, and the stick tugs him to put him off balance.

 

[syz]

Lmao right, so is this one right? Funny how the best skater in the league falls down like a sack of shit when he feels like it

The faster you're going the easier it is to be thrown off balance. If you want to get a sense of it I recommend going for a bike ride downhill and sticking something into your spokes. I'll wait patiently for the results.

 

[v00d00daddy]

It's a blatant interference penalty. Bet it wasn't called tho.

I see the interference too.

I don’t like that it wasn’t called. In fact, they both should have been called.

2 mins for interference
2 mins for embellishment

 

[TheNumber4]

Lmao right, so is this one right? Funny how the best skater in the league falls down like a sack of shit when he feels like it

Do you not see McD lunging a whole body length to reach one handed and on one foot to get a touch on that puck before the fall. He did that all while he was held and hooked. The fall was McD going full effort trying to make a hard play though; so it was partly his fault for getting himself off balance trying to make a play, but I wouldn’t call it cut and dry diving.

 

[MCR74]

No this is a dive.

Yep!

 

[Frank Drebin]

Lmao right, so is this one right? Funny how the best skater in the league falls down like a sack of shit when he feels like it

Probably scored on the powerplay after too.

Wait, that video was from 2016, so maybe not.

 

[Kerberos]

so DoPS watches oilers games and simply choose not to fine mcdavid, got it

They're too busy sorting through Pettersson diving every shift to worry about the imaginary McDavid dives you've dreamt up in your head.

 

[benfranklin]

Thanks. Thats the crap that should be fined after the fact and reviewable on the ice.

And the fines should be a relevant amount. $1-5k is like charging us mortals $10-20 in our beer league game. Id pay that to give my team an edge and NHLers would too.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

Very mild slap on the wrist, but it tells the refs to watch him with a more skeptical eye.

 

[1specter]

Am I having a Mandela effect moment or did Skinner not get punished for this in his time in Carolina as well?

Or was he just considered a diver but never got fined? I recall some discourse about that on the old HF.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Probably scored on the powerplay after too.

Wait, that video was from 2016, so maybe not.

Your example is 8 years okd

 

[GhostfaceWu]

It not a dive if you get hit with a stick in the face. Its a reaction. It happened to be his own stick that the opponent lifted.

Yeah I forget where it causes your feet to go jelly and you flop on your stomach.

 

[eviohh26]

Fitting in perfectly with the Oilers I see! This team really is something else when it comes to diving.

 

[benfranklin]

Yeah I forget where it causes your feet to go jelly and you flop on your stomach.

Have a video so we can review it? All I remember was a stick hit him in the face and after replay it was his own stick lifted up by the opponent.

 

[Romang67]

Skinner has always been a diver, way back to his Hurricanes days.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Refs really f***in hate Skinner, is my guess. For some reason his constant yapping just seems to irk ‘em more than most, and I absolutely think he gets punished for it. He’s on a different team now, I can say that.

I wonder if the ref made a note of it in his game report. Otherwise I can’t see how the league would have picked that one play out of the pile. But if the ref was aware going into the game that Skinner had been warned, or if Skinner just said something after the incident that stuck in his craw, maybe he included it in his report which would have triggered the review and fine.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Am I having a Mandela effect moment or did Skinner not get punished for this in his time in Carolina as well?

Or was he just considered a diver but never got fined? I recall some discourse about that on the old HF.

I don’t remember him being fined for diving, but he was suspended for a kicking incident.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Needs more fines league-wide.

 

[Roof Daddy]

Let me know when refs are held accountable (ie: fines) for doing their jobs poorly. I’m sure Marty St.Louis doesn’t want to talk about it.

 

[LuGBuG]

Where's Stutzle's bill?

He was pathetic against Anaheim the other night with the crying.

 

[v00d00daddy]

Offset by the hundreds of non-calls on obstruction hooks, holds and interference every season. Amazing people still focus on the 'diving'.

I think it’s because the diving/embellishment makes the league and the whole sport look bad.

I love soccer and hate the diving in it. I think it’s a huge reason why many North American folk hate soccer

 

[Breakers]

I believe kadri had been fined for diving

That Dallas stats d-man too, but I could be wrong on that one

 

[v00d00daddy]

Very mild slap on the wrist, but it tells the refs to watch him with a more skeptical eye.

Oh that played a part too. He’s always been like this.