The NHL should have put embellishment as a priority rather that that craptastic face off hand pass violation junk or the little love taps to the hands as hooking they’ve been calling around the league.

I guess it’s kind of hard to start calling it now when the league was basically endorsing it by letting their face of the game get away with it for so many years.

Posted by WingsFanInBeanLand from where free agents no longer dare. on 03/04/13 at 08:33 AM ET

Penalty minutes per game on the season

Montreal 15.4

Boston 15.6

Thanks for playing Claude. 
For sure the refs missed the initial call on Emelin but Seguin didn’t miss a shift and it’s not like Boston didn’t get away with anything.  Also, Emelin got five minutes for serving as Chara’s punching bag so the 17 minutes really is more like 12.  I’m assuming Chara got the misconduct because he left the blue line to come pound on Emelin behind the red line.  That was his choice.

Posted by dwgs on 03/04/13 at 09:46 AM ET

The NHL should have put embellishment as a priority rather that that craptastic face off hand pass violation junk or the little love taps to the hands as hooking they’ve been calling around the league.

I guess it’s kind of hard to start calling it now when the league was basically endorsing it by letting their face of the game get away with it for so many years.

Posted by WingsFanInBeanLand from Where free agents no longer want to go. on 03/04/13 at

I could have sworn there was a memo from the NHL several weeks ago that they were cracking down on embellishment/diving.  I’m fairly positive as I pointedly laughed at the ridiculousness of the statement having watched well over 2 dozen games at that point and not having seen a single unsportsmanlike-diving call.

Posted by Valek from Chicago on 03/04/13 at 10:50 AM ET