Caboose Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 The whole point of this thread was to show how ridiculous and bias the media is towards the Canucks. Do some of the Canucks dive? Sure they do. Most educated fans would agree. But when your very own team dives, you (the Bostons Bruins) don't have the right to call the Canucks out for diving. Hypocrisy at its finest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cIutch Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 So Kesler should too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboose Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 wow its like i have a time machine , went into the future and saw that you were about to post this because you sir are the biggest anti homer - i hate the canucks but love em when they do good type of loser there is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cIutch Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 i understand that someone was going to post that , i dont think marchand is the only diver in the league but i knew YOU would post it , not anyone else YOU seriously go cheer for the leafs so you really have something to complain about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboose Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 i understand that someone was going to post that , i dont think marchand is the only diver in the league but i knew YOU would post it , not anyone else YOU seriously go cheer for the leafs so you really have something to complain about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Industrious1 Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Lots of players dive, including some of our very own (which makes me grind my teeth). I don't hold it against them as it is so common in the NHL now, but I would like to see some of these cheap shots eliminated from the League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sedin's 6th Sense Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 1st class acting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soshified Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 According to the Media: Canucks: Divers, whiners, chirps Everyone else: It's a hockey play that draws penalties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lychees Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 I am a realist, not a hater. If I see Kesler take a blatant dive I point it out. The Canucks dive more than most teams, if you don't see that you are blind. Do I like how the media only points out Canuck dives? No. Do I acknowledge that that Kesler is embellishing what seems to be every play he is involved in? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlanTheParade Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 The first Backstrom crosscheck was kinda legit, a bit light but I would still make that call. The 2nd/3rd ones were Olympic podium-worthy LOLz. re: Kesler-Mitchell dive. It was a dumb dive to take since he was going to get called for it regardless if he went down or not (this is not always this case though) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeanBeef Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Even the Jack Edward's partner called him on it after Backstroms little push to his back. But every team has a diver or a couple. We have Kesler, Burrows, Lapierre, and at times; Henrik Sedin. We also have Raymond who looks like a flopper due to constantly falling down ,but really he isn't one. Bruins have Ference, Krejci, Peverley, and Big nose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoneypuckOverlord Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 I am a realist, not a hater. If I see Kesler take a blatant dive I point it out. The Canucks dive more than most teams, if you don't see that you are blind. Do I like how the media only points out Canuck dives? No. Do I acknowledge that that Kesler is embellishing what seems to be every play he is involved in? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baka Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 From the HF Boards, I got a chuckle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lundhead Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 It's not that other teams don't dive it just seems like the nucks make it so blatantly obvious at times. I don't know what kesler was thinking but that's the kind of move that deflates your team, it's basically like saying to your teammates "I don't think we can score 5on5 so I'm gonna draw a penalty". Same thing with the backwards somersault I'm gm 1, it gives the impression that you have zero confidence in your team's ability to score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magoomba Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Better for the league if he does his diving than taking out knee caps trying to "defend himself". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lundhead Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Plus we have to remember, it takes 1000 times longer to gain respect than lose it. The rep we got during last yrs finals is gonna take a long time to get rid of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 the ironing is that Jack Edwards was a soccer player... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsCanuck Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Him and Kesler probably practice together in the off season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson-JH Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Latest new on Marchand diving: Getting speared by Chimera.. Brad Marchand is one of those irritating players. Brian Burke might call him a rat. He's the sort of guy that can drive a man to do things he might not otherwise do, such as, say, spear Brad Marchand in the groin with the blade of his stick. That's what Washington Capitals forward Jason Chimera did. For this, he was inexplicably given a two-minute penalty for slashing. There is, I remind you, NHL officials, a spearing rule, and this could be an instructional video on an instance in which to call it: groin shot Here's how it went down: Ouch. Right in the Li'l Champion. But don't weep for Marchand. The man was absolutely committed to drawing penalties in this game, so I'm sure he found this spear just as satisfying as Chimera did. Plus the Bruins won, so he took one for the boys, both literally and figuratively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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