Hockey Prompt


As far as I've seen, embellishment penalties are extremely rare in the NHL and the vast majority of players seem to respect the integrity of the game and their opponents enough not to embellish calls to an unreasonable degree. Of course there are still instances of slight overselling, but the game is fast paced and the refs can't always see every interaction between two players, so making the penalty more visible to them doesn't hurt the integrity of the game most of the time. Of course it's good that the embellishment rule still exists so that obvious selling is kept in check, but there's a good balance and a known difference between making the presence of a penalty clear to the refs and rolling on the ice in pain after a light slash. I don't know of any specific players who abuse this rule and I'm sure that having a reputation of excessive embellishment isn't supported by other players in the league so overall I feel like it's in a good state.