🤦Penalty, after which the Canadians were left with three and missed two in a row.
😱Just an ugly whistle from the Swedish referees in the World Cup final. There is no understanding of why Sillinger was removed after a single repetition. The Finns converted the majority twice in a row. And there is no doubt that the referees influenced the game.
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High stick was called wrong. He did slash Heiskanen blatantly right before that though. Should’ve been a penalty for the slash anyway, so crying over the ref call is just dumb.
Canada has a 1 – 0 lead. One minute into the third Canada gets a two- minute penalty. With five seconds left to kill Canada takes another penalty to go two men down. Canada kills off the first penalty and a minute later takes the phantom high stick penalty to go two men down yet again.
The Finns score on the two-man advantage and Canada's goalie is injured. On comes a third string goalie in a short-handed situation who gets scored on right away. In less than 30 seconds Finland scores two and Canada loses its goalie all because of outright cheating or gross incompetence.
The two-minute penalty Canada took in overtime after the Finnish dive could have been corrected by giving the Finn who dove a penalty for pulling down the Canadian chasing the puck. Instead the Finns got to get possession and enjoyed a brief advantage.
The loss cost Canada the IIHF #1 ranking only making the charade even more outrageous. And let's remember the IIHF'S method of ranking teams exists only to make sure Canada isn't permanently ranked #1. The real hockey rankings are 1)Canada 2)USA 3)Russia 4)Sweden and 5)Finland. Real hockey people know this. The IIHF is a joke.
There is a reason North Americans ignore the IIHF world championships. It's a fix.