I have a question for anyone who might have an opinion on this topic: Over the past several years, I've been noticing a trend in players taking dives to draw penalties. A player will either lay down as if he was unconscious or writhe around wildly to draw as much of a penalty as he can. Then the team trainer will be brought to the ice, delaying the flow of the game, the player will get up-get the obligatory applause- then be out on the ice next shift skating his butt off. Don't get me wrong, sometimes the player is hurt, hockey is a rough game, but I just can't stomach watching these guys get off taking dives. Especially when people try to tell me it's part of the game. The most notable occurrence, which got me to write this, happened tonight at the RPI-Vermont game. Following one of the Vermont goals, Askew of RPI crosschecked #10 Perrin (sp?) of Vermont, if you could call it a crosscheck. From where I was sitting it didn't look bad at all. Askew got a 5 minute major, and after around a 3 minute delay, play began. Roughly 2 minutes later, Perrin was back out, with his dynamic-duo twin #8 St. Louis (sp?), playing up a storm. Now was this just a case of the Referee being harsher to a player checking a "star" player or what? I would just like to get some other opinions on this topic, and I don't mean to take anything away from Vermont, they played a great game (who couldn't against the Engineers tonight??? :) ) Sorry for being so long-winded, -George Politis [log in to unmask]