{"id":81091,"date":"2025-08-14T02:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T02:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81091\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T02:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T02:27:07","slug":"ref-makes-team-usa-player-apologize-for-shooting-the-puck-after-whistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81091\/","title":{"rendered":"Ref Makes Team USA Player Apologize for Shooting The Puck After Whistle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ref decided to teach a lesson in sportsmanship<\/p>\n<p>PublishedAugust 13, 2025 8:04 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedAugust 13, 2025 8:04 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It&#8217;s never too late to teach some rules about sportsmanship, and one hockey referee took matters into his own hands during a game between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/team-usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Team USA<\/a> and Germany on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The Hlinka Gretzky Cup is happening in Czechia and Slovakia and is an international tournament for U-18 teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It&#8217;s not the same as the IIHF U-18 World Championship, but it is a big tournament that allows players to get some scout eyes on them ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/nhl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NHL<\/a> Draft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Anyway, Team USA was squaring off against Germany, and while Germany is usually pretty solid on the international stage, this one was all Team USA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The Americans wound up winning this one handily, by a score of 8-1, but one of the few shots that didn&#8217;t find twine came late in the first period, with the US already up 3-0.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Portland Winterhawks forward Will McLaughlin was stopped by the German defense as he tried to cut toward the slot and get a shot off on German goalie Sascha Pitaev.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The whistle blew, and it appeared that McLaughlin fired the shot on net in frustration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The official wasn&#8217;t having it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">He immediately started yelling for McLaughlin to go over and apologize to Pitaev.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">McLaughlin obliged and gave Pitaev a pat on the chest as an apology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Honestly, it was a good lesson on sportsmanship for McLaughlin, and one that could save him some bruises down the line, because other teams typically don&#8217;t take too kindly to their goalie getting shelled after the whistle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Especially when it&#8217;s 3-0 one period in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The nature of a tournament like this is that you have to run up the score in the opening rounds since goal differential is typically one of the first tie-breakers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">That said, maybe pull up and don&#8217;t let one rip on the dude who&#8217;s already about a goal away from getting the hook before the end of the first stanza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ref decided to teach a lesson in sportsmanship PublishedAugust 13, 2025 8:04 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedAugust 13, 2025 8:04&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-81091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}