It appears we have some sour grapes after Canada defeated Finland in the Olympics men’s hockey semifinal on Thursday.

Finland seems pretty unhappy about how the game was officiated, calling out the penalties their team was charged with — especially the one with just over two minutes remaining in the third period that led to Nathan MacKinnon’s game-winning goal.

Legendary Finnish right winger Teemu Selänne called out the referees for calling a penalty when MacKinnon took a stick to the face. Specifically, he seemed displeased that both referees, Eric Furlatt and Dan O’Rourke, are Canadian.

“Beating greatest hockey country in the world and Canadian referees same night is impossible I guess,” Selänne’s tweet read. “Absolutely embarrassing penalty 90 seconds to go in Olympic semifinal.. what a joke 🤬”

Ryan Daisy of the United States and Denmark’s Albert Ankerstjerne were the linespersons.

While there appears to be some merit to criticizing having two referees from the nation that’s playing the game, it’s hard to question the call that was made. Replays showed Finnish player Niko Mikkola’s stick clearly hitting MacKinnon in the face and impeding his progress. It wasn’t a call that could ignored.

There is a combination of both NHL and international referees being used at the Olympic tournament, but the preference is certainly to have NHL referees used in these games with the highest stakes and monitoring a majority of the players they are more accustomed to.

Finnish forward Joel Armia also took issue with the referees’ decisions, calling out what he felt was goalie interference by Brad Marchand when Shea Theodore scored the game-tying goal.

“Five-on-five, they got one goal,” Armia said. “That was goalie interference.”

Armia didn’t seem to be alone in feeling that way as several online expressed similar views.

The last tweet above makes a noteworthy point. The Finns had a challenge at their disposal but, for whatever reason, elected not to use it. If it was such a blatant missed call, surely they would’ve done so.

Finland ended up using its challenge on Canada’s game-winning goal, but to no avail.

Canadian two-time Olympic hockey gold medal winner (2002, 2010) Chris Pronger chimed in with his take, replying specifically to Selänne’s outburst and expressing that, ultimately, a team that plays too defensively asks for trouble and in this case Finland got it.

It must be said that this was a tremendous effort by Finland, coming ever so close to pulling off the upset. Marchand, at the centre of the penalty controversy, had nothing but praise for their performance.

“They pushed, they’re such a good team and they compete so hard,” Marchand said after the game. “You see it doesn’t take them much to score, they’re very opportunistic and very dangerous.”

After two thrilling finishes against two dangerous teams, Canada will now hope to find its best hockey well before the third period in the gold medal game against the United States.

The final will be on Sunday at 8:10 a.m. EST/5:10 a.m. PST.