There are definitely more than a few current and former NHL players who have a reputation of embellishment, and most of them have the record to show the moniker is well deserved. Sidney Crosby, Martin Brodeur, Brad Marchand and Sean Avery are some of the bigger names on that list.

Diving or embellishment by a player shows an absolute disrespect to the game of hockey, and is somethign wee'd more expect from a football player. It ruins the integrity of the play, and should be discouraged and penalized as much as possible.

A few seasons ago, the NHL has started to review possible embellishment/diving plays, and penalize them with fines. Players like Tony DeAngelo, Michael Bunting and Garnet Hathaway have all received a player fine for their second violation.

Thankfully this has somewhat worked in reducing the number of overly obvious embellishment and diving actions by players. But in order to further abolish it from the game, more serious consequences need to be tied to players being caught. We don't want out sport turning into a bunch of rolling babies like football has.