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It was the fans versus the referees in a tense and at times chaotic Western Hockey League (WHL) playoff game in Prince George Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Game 4 of the Prince George Cougars second-round series against the Penticton Vees saw the crowd turn on officials after the home team received multiple penalties that were viewed as unfair by those watching, culminating in a fight in the stands, objects thrown onto the ice and repeated chants of “refs, you suck” erupting throughout the CN Centre.<\/p>\n
At one point, officials doled out a two-minute penalty to the Cougars for fan behaviour as cans of beer and other drinks were thrown onto the ice. <\/p>\n
“I didn’t know what the call was,” Cougars head coach Mark Lamb said during a postgame interview on local radio station the GOAT, which also broadcast the game. He said that in his multi-decade career in hockey, which included time playing in the NHL, he’d never seen a team receive a penalty for fan behaviour.<\/p>\n
The Vees scored four power-play goals \u2014 three of them in game’s final five minutes \u2014 on their way to a 5-2 win. <\/p>\n
WATCH | Unruly fan behaviour in tense game:<\/p>\n
Referees made multiple calls that drew the ire of spectators.<\/p>\n
Among them was a five-minute penalty and game misconduct in the third period against Prince George defenceman Corbin Vaughan for checking to the head. Video replay indicated it was body-on-body.<\/p>\n
After Cougars defenceman Arsenii Anisimov was given a delay of game penalty, drinks and other objects started to be thrown from the stands, despite repeated pleas from the in-house announcer to stop. The Cougars were then given a bench minor penalty. <\/p>\n
“That was certainly one of the games of all time,” the Cougars said in a social media post following the game.<\/p>\n
CBC News has reached out to WHL officials for comment.<\/p>\n
The Vees win tied the\u00a0best-of-seven series\u00a0at 2-2. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-609278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609278","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=609278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}