Neutral viewer here: Why does everyone think this was a dive? Honestly an embarrassing lack of Hockey knowledge – especially with the benefit of being able to watch it on replay. It was not a dive, and it was a penalty
April 24, 2024
Neutral viewer here: Why does everyone think this was a dive? Honestly an embarrassing lack of Hockey knowledge – especially with the benefit of being able to watch it on replay. It was not a dive, and it was a penalty
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Because players use their free hand like that all the time during partial breakaways and it’s uncommon to see the defender fall down from it. Also uncommon to see it get called.
I think the biggest tell that it isn’t a dive is that if it doesn’t get called (and it usually doesn’t) then it would have been a breakaway, it just doesn’t make sense to intentionally give the other team a great scoring chance for a slim penalty chance.
The real reason is because everyone’s focused on the hand and doesn’t realize it was Brady’s right leg that gets clipped causing him to go down. If you think it’s just the free hand it’s an awfully weird way for Skjei to fall “naturally”, so most people assume he’s diving.
I’m not so sure it was a penalty, as Skjei’s skate gets caught by Lee’s and that’s what puts him down, but it certainly wasn’t a dive.
I feel like the “right” call here would be no call, frankly. It’s not a hold, and technically if Lee had gone down it would be a trip on Skjei. I’ve never seen a puck handler get called for a trip, which this is closest to. So… No call and no one should be upset.
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Because players use their free hand like that all the time during partial breakaways and it’s uncommon to see the defender fall down from it. Also uncommon to see it get called.
I think the biggest tell that it isn’t a dive is that if it doesn’t get called (and it usually doesn’t) then it would have been a breakaway, it just doesn’t make sense to intentionally give the other team a great scoring chance for a slim penalty chance.
The real reason is because everyone’s focused on the hand and doesn’t realize it was Brady’s right leg that gets clipped causing him to go down. If you think it’s just the free hand it’s an awfully weird way for Skjei to fall “naturally”, so most people assume he’s diving.
I’m not so sure it was a penalty, as Skjei’s skate gets caught by Lee’s and that’s what puts him down, but it certainly wasn’t a dive.
I feel like the “right” call here would be no call, frankly. It’s not a hold, and technically if Lee had gone down it would be a trip on Skjei. I’ve never seen a puck handler get called for a trip, which this is closest to. So… No call and no one should be upset.