and translated here by RonoHockey.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n\u201cWe were basically playing against six players. I don\u2019t want to make excuses, and no one has to agree with me, but the video backs me up. In this respect, it\u2019s not a fair tournament. It was happening to us even against Denmark. The mix of NHL and European referees hasn\u2019t worked \u2014 everyone calls the game differently.\u201d<\/p>\n
The game was officiated by American Chris Rooney (NHL) and Sweden\u2019s Mikael Holm (SHL). Canada was awarded three power plays, Czechia two, and the stripes did not settle on a standard.<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s Macklin Celebrini was whistled for interference on inconsequential play that would have been a Czech icing. David Pastrnak scored on the ensuing power play.<\/p>\n
Sidney Crosby was later interfered with blatantly, checked into the board by Ondrej Palat in the neutral zone, and no call was made.<\/p>\n
Radko Gudas was given a ticky-tack roughing penalty for simply finishing a check, but that appeared to be a makeup call for his earlier aggression toward Crosby, whom he injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really sorry about it. The guys deserved a top-level performance from the referees. They always admit afterward that we were right, but nothing ever changes,\u201d Rul\u00edk continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should have had power plays against Canada. But they were afraid Pasta or (Martin) Necas would score another power-play goal. And if Gudas was penalized, then (Drew) Doughty should have been too for the hit on Pasta.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ironically, the most egregious missed call came on Palat\u2019s third-period goal.<\/p>\n
Eight\u00a0Czech skaters were on the ice.\u00a0Six\u00a0gathered to celebrate the go-ahead marker.<\/p>\n
And still, there was no call for too many men.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot aware at all,\u201d Canada\u2019s Connor McDavid said, twice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not sure how we missed it. Nobody even mentioned it until after the game. So, we’ve got to do a better job paying attention. That being said, the refs do too. Everybody can. I feel like everybody missed it. It was kind of a weird play that way, but we have to pay more attention.\u201d<\/p>\n
An IIHF spokesperson told\u00a0The Athletic\u00a0\u2019s Pierre LeBrun Thursday that the goal was reviewed. The IIHF saw what we all did. The refs missed a clear infraction, but mistakes happen.<\/p>\n
Had Canada not rallied to victory, the unspotted extra Czechs would\u2019ve turned this mistake into international uproar. In real time, however, it was hardly noticed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn’t know until after the game,\u201d Doughty said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot a single player, coach knew until after the game. Nobody. Yeah, we talked about it. We’re like, \u2018How did that get missed?’ But, I mean, we all missed it. It makes sense that the refs could miss it too. S— happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s Sam Bennett, who was too ill to play, can\u2019t believe he didn\u2019t count the extra skaters from his perch in the arena\u2019s stands.<\/p>\n
“I didn\u2019t, actually,\u201d Bennett said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m surprised, because I was watching that game pretty intensely. But I missed that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Czechia\u2019s head coach, Radim Rul\u00edk, was livid with the officiating in Wednesday\u2019s hard-fought 4-3 overtime loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-485649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}