Re: Boston University 2012-13 Season Thread -- Up To The Task?
The problem is that ref's can call embellishment. Get rid of the embellishment call. If it's a penalty then it's a penalty and if a player has to exaggerate to draw the ref's attention then so what. Likewise, if one player touches the other with his stick and he goes flying to the ice, it's a dive. The matching penalty-embellishment call just allows the ref's to have no responsibility to actually make a call. It's like answering "both" to a True/False question. If the ref doesn't see the penalty and just sees the exaggerated reaction, let the play continue and be more aware of those two players for the rest of the game. Otherwise if a ref sees the what happened it's either a penalty or a dive. I've seen a hundred embellishment calls (all coupled with a penalty as I believe that is the rule) and maybe two diving calls. As for which teams dive more than others, I feel like it is more of a player to player thing, though perhaps some coaches condone it and others don't.
Originally posted by Brian Gentry
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