Red Wings' Pulkkinen fined for diving/embellishment

Friday, 11.13.2015 / 11:30 AM
NHL Public Relations

NEW YORK -- Detroit Red Wings forward Teemu Pulkkinen has been fined $2,000 as supplementary discipline under NHL Rule 64 (Diving/Embellishment), the National Hockey League announced today.

NHL Rule 64 is designed to bring attention to and more seriously penalize players (and teams) who repeatedly dive and embellish in an attempt to draw penalties. Fines are assessed to players and head coaches on a graduated scale outlined below:

Citation# Player Fine(s) * Head Coach Fine(s)
1 $2,000 N/A
2 $3,000 N/A
3 $4,000 N/A
4 $5,000 N/A
5 $5,000 $2,000
6 $5,000 $3,000
7 $5,000 $4,000
8 $5,000 $5,000
* For Head Coach, each FINE issued to a player on his Club counts toward total.

Citations are issued by the National Hockey League Hockey Operations Department, which tracks all games, logs all penalties for diving or embellishment and flags all plays not called on the ice that in its opinion were deserving of such a penalty. A Citation is issued once Hockey Operations, through its internal deliberations, is convinced that a player warrants sanction.

Pulkkinen was issued a Warning following an incident flagged by NHL Hockey Operations during NHL Game No. 116 at Vancouver on Oct. 24. His second Citation, which triggered the $2,000 fine, was issued for an incident at 12:36 of the first period during NHL Game No. 211 against Dallas on Nov. 8.

The money goes to the Players' Emergency Assistance Fund.

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