While there are obviously a few wrinkles to be dealt with such as criteria to get you on this list, who decides who's on the list, and what you can do to get off it, we love the idea of publicly shaming divers as the current rules of supplementary discipline in the form of a suspension/fine just aren't cutting it. The list ensures embarrassment and we have a few ideas of how the NHL and players could take this a step further.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Shame The Divers!
Last week there was a little "Rules Summit" going on between players, officials and team execs to address the officiating standards in the NHL. Not surprisingly, diving and embellishment was one of the main discussion points during the summit, and a pretty good idea emerged out of it - the proposal to create a list of divers in the league. This list would be posted in all 30 NHL dressing rooms and be delivered to referees before games. The list would take divers and embellishers public for shaming in front of their peers and in theory work as a deterrent for those on the list to stay on their feet.
While there are obviously a few wrinkles to be dealt with such as criteria to get you on this list, who decides who's on the list, and what you can do to get off it, we love the idea of publicly shaming divers as the current rules of supplementary discipline in the form of a suspension/fine just aren't cutting it. The list ensures embarrassment and we have a few ideas of how the NHL and players could take this a step further.
While there are obviously a few wrinkles to be dealt with such as criteria to get you on this list, who decides who's on the list, and what you can do to get off it, we love the idea of publicly shaming divers as the current rules of supplementary discipline in the form of a suspension/fine just aren't cutting it. The list ensures embarrassment and we have a few ideas of how the NHL and players could take this a step further.
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Haha
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Is there going to be hockey this year?
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Maxi pad would never get off of this list. They could just name it after him haha
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