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The NHL doesn’t want its sport to turn out like professional soccer has and is hoping to do something about it. The hockey league said it wants to nip the art of player diving in the bud before it gets any worse. Of course, pro soccer has tarnished its reputation around the world with numerous players diving in the penalty area looking for a penalty kick to be called. The same type of unsportsmanlike conduct has slowly crept into the NHL over the past couple of seasons and the league wants to come up with an effective way to curb it. While the act is called diving in soccer, the NHL refers to it as embellishment and already has a rule in place to deal with it. If a referee feels that a player has dived or embellished after being hit by an opponent, then a two-minute minor penalty is called. In some instances, the player who makes the physical contact and the player who embellishes it will both receive penalties. Several NHL referees and players got together in Toronto, Canada recent...