NHL Diving Fines 2014-15

Offender Team Incident Date Fine Details Neal, James NSH 12/13/14 $2,000 Article Nyquist, Gustav DET 12/29/14 $2,000 Trocheck, Vincent FLA 1/4/15 $2,000 Clutterbuck, Cal NYI 1/19/15 $2,000 Subban, PK MTL 1/29/15 $2,000 Article Neuvirth, Michal BUF 2/22/15 $2,000 Video Panik, Richard TOR 3/1/15 $2,000 Article Subban, PK MTL 3/12/15 $3,000 Article Wilson, Tom WSH 3/19/15 $2,000 Article Shaw, Andrew CHI 3/30/15 $2,000 Article

As a reminder, here’s the scale of fines issues to those found guilty of diving/embellishment.

NHL Embellishment Penalties 2014-15

Below are the players called for embellishment by the on-ice referees. The league reviews all possible embellishment situations and may consider additional dives that were not penalized during the game. They may also rescind dives called in a game that were later reviewed and determined not to be embellishments.

Date Team Num Player Dive Count 3/1/15 WSH #43 WILSON 1 2/28/15 CAR #28 SEMIN 2 2/28/15 NSH #9 FORSBERG 2 2/27/15 CAR #28 SEMIN 1 2/26/15 CHI #23 VERSTEEG 1 2/14/15 NYR #62 HAGELIN 1 2/14/15 MIN #9 KOIVU 1 2/9/15 EDM #62 PAKARINEN 1 2/1/15 NSH #19 JARNKROK 1 1/31/15 NYI #29 NELSON 1 1/29/15 MTL #76 SUBBAN 2 1/16/15 CHI #29 BICKELL 1 1/15/15 STL #74 OSHIE 1 1/6/15 S.J #39 COUTURE 1 1/4/15 CAR #49 RASK 1 1/3/15 VAN #9 KASSIAN 1 12/27/14 BUF #28 GIRGENSONS 1 12/20/14 PIT #71 MALKIN 1 12/20/14 PIT #71 MALKIN 2 12/19/14 N.J #17 RYDER 1 12/18/14 FLA #11 HUBERDEAU 1 12/16/14 ANA #15 GETZLAF 1 12/13/14 PIT #17 COMEAU 1 12/13/14 NSH #18 NEAL 1 12/6/14 DAL #16 GARBUTT 1 12/2/14 L.A #71 NOLAN 1 12/2/14 VAN #51 DORSETT 1 11/28/14 DET #14 NYQUIST 1 11/24/14 OTT #7 TURRIS 1 11/22/14 CGY #32 BYRON 1 11/20/14 OTT #16 MACARTHUR 1 11/18/14 ARI #10 ERAT 1 11/16/14 MIN #2 BALLARD 1 11/13/14 EDM #57 PERRON 1 11/10/14 BOS #63 MARCHAND 2 11/10/14 BOS #18 SMITH 1 11/8/14 S.J #52 IRWIN 1 11/8/14 FLA #36 JOKINEN 1 11/6/14 CGY #60 GRANLUND 1 11/6/14 MIN #19 VEILLEUX 1 11/6/14 OTT #27 LAZAR 1 11/6/14 T.B #9 JOHNSON 1 11/5/14 DET #8 ABDELKADER 1 11/1/14 ARI #24 CHIPCHURA 1 11/1/14 PHI #36 RINALDO 1 10/31/14 ANA #10 PERRY 1 10/28/14 CHI #65 SHAW 1 10/28/14 CGY #5 GIORDANO 1 10/28/14 NYI #17 MARTIN 1 10/28/14 MIN #32 BACKSTROM 1 10/26/14 ANA #45 VATANEN 1 10/25/14 PHI #10 SCHENN 1 10/22/14 PIT #14 KUNITZ 1 10/21/14 MTL #67 PACIORETTY 1 10/18/14 PIT #23 DOWNIE 1 10/16/14 MTL #76 SUBBAN 1 10/14/14 NSH #9 FORSBERG 1 10/13/14 OTT #6 RYAN 1 10/11/14 L.A #28 STOLL 1 10/9/14 BOS #63 MARCHAND 1 10/9/14 STL #9 OTT 1 10/9/14 STL #91 TARASENKO 1

The Diving/Embellishment Review Process

The NHL’s Hockey Operations department tracks every diving or embellishment penalty called on the ice. They also review each game to identify possible dives that were missed by the on-ice officials. (In some cases, they even rescind those diving penalties that may have been called during a game. Boston’s Brad Marchand was the beneficiary of such a modification.)

Once the Hockey Ops team agrees that a dive has taken place, they issue a citation. Sportsnet’s Damien Cox reports that there are nine individuals who participate in the review of each incident. If six decide that a dive has taken place, the player is cited.