It was also the date that Mironov left the Blackhawks voluntarily because he was upset with his diminishing playing time.
Iginla fell back to 67 points in 2002 03 as injuries, including a lingering finger dislocation following a fight, diminished his play.
While I wish you luck wherever you go, your chances of reaching the lofty heights again will be diminished by playing in a system and with players with whom you are not familiar.
Just as in the Roman Tragedies, Van Hove hasn't diminished these plays, he has simply shaped them and retold them in a text that may bear only a passing resemblance to Shakespeare's original, but treats Shakespeare as if he is a newly discovered playwright with some urgent things to say about modern political leaders and warfare.
Given his obvious attention to detail, the gap is inexplicable and diminishes the play.
But for now, the question is whether his suspension will diminish his play, and whether the Steelers' season will be too far gone by the time he returns.
But league executives have said they do not want to diminish physical play by passing rules that discourage players from risking accidental contact with an opponent's head.
Rather than diminishing the play, this Winnie's ordinariness magnifies it in Natalie Abrahami's grimly funny, absurdly painful revival, which is lit with a forensic brilliance by Paule Constable.
By contrast, a symbolic approach, which might include the unspoken or unspeakable desires, drives and impulses of human beings, could diminish the play's specific crisis.
In an otherwise splendid staging, it is the director's miscalculation to accentuate the positive, as Brian Corrigan does in a desperately upbeat fadeout that diminishes the play's ruefulness.
