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11th Jan 2015

Ice hockey player gets punched and is penalised for DIVING

We know hockey players are supposed to be tough, but...

Gareth Makim

Fighting is a big part of ice hockey, but these referees have surely taken the sport’s tough-guy image a step too far?

Derik Johnson of Minnesota-Duluth got into a scrap with North Dakota’s Stephane Pattyn during a college game and appeared to come off the worse after a single punch sent him tumbling to the ice.

The officials had no sympathy for Johnson, though, instead giving him a penalty for diving.

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