Sports such as soccer understand that there is a bit of embellishment and diving in the game. The NHL in its current landscape doesn’t have any time for that.
Jannik Hansen was hit for his second embellishment of the year in the video below.
You can pretty clearly see him leave his feet trying to draw the call on the play.
Hansen isn’t the only offender this season as Ottawa’s Zack Smith and Detroit’s Teemu Pulkkinen are on the list of divers fined by the league.
