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Ice hockey player gets punched and is penalised for DIVING

Published 09:45 11 Jan 2015 GMT

Gareth Makim
Ice hockey player gets punched and is penalised for DIVING

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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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iprTx11f4lM&

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Ice hockey player gets punched and is penalised for DIVING