European players already have a bad rep of diving and being less physical, so Aksel chooses to lean into that when he feels a stick graze his chin. He sees the ref out of the corner of his eye and kind of flips back onto the ice. It's very dramatic and majestic and when they play it back on the big screen, everyone on the bench gives him kind of a look that they try and hide from the other team and the refs because Aksel really sold it and the refs eat it up. Shoyo Hinata on Atlanta gets two minutes for roughing and Aksel knows that his draft group chat is going to be very incendiary when he checks it post game, but they score off that penalty so really it's completely worth it. Would he do it again? Absolutely and just as full of dramatics. He'll backflip for a penalty, if needed.