Esa Lindell gets called for embellishment after embarrassingly bad dive

In the dying moments of the second period in tonight’s game between the St. Louis Blues and Dallas Stars, Blues defenseman Robert Bortuzzo mixed it up with Stars defenseman Esa Lindell and… let’s just say that Lindell may have a future on the Finnish diving team.

Check out Lindell sprawling on the ice after a crosscheck from Bortuzzo:

And here’s the entire sequence:

Come on man… get up. This is the Stanley Cup Playoffs, not the FIFA World Cup….