Bruins Coach Julien Supports NHL’s Effort Against Diving

NHL officials will view videotapes after games, and subject escalating warnings and fines to players found to habitually embellish plays for calls. The perfect example of this would be the phantom high sticks that caused Montreal’s Tomas Plekanec to whip his head back in the Eastern Conference Final against the Rangers, and eventually put an embarrassing black mark on the player and the Original Six franchise.

Eventually the players warned and fined for diving will have their identities released to the media and general public, and the player’s coach will be fined after the fourth infraction in a season. Julien thinks all of those controls are forward progress in cleaning up the league’s diving problem.