Yeah I remember all the problems during the 2010 Olympics.
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2014 Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Tournament | Salt on an international level
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Yeah I remember all the problems during the 2010 Olympics.
zer0blivion
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I expect the game to be called fairly. Anything less than complete impartiality is unacceptable.
It was a disaster in Nagano when Canada was in tough in the semi finals and the Canadian refs bailed them out. Poor Czechs got robbed.
Buba Big Guns
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lol
how come this has never been an issue before now? Canadians refs have been used in every final.
Stuggernaut
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What are people thinking is going to happen?
A ref is going to throw his entire career away by making biased one sided calls that ruin a gold medal game? It is simply not going to happen.
The only issue here is that no matter what happens now, people will blame the refs and taint this whole game.
A ref is going to throw his entire career away by making biased one sided calls that ruin a gold medal game? It is simply not going to happen.
The only issue here is that no matter what happens now, people will blame the refs and taint this whole game.
A referee and a linesman were Canadian in the USA/Canada game yesterday, but you don't hear the Americans bitching about it.
Nearly all of Canada's games had at least one Canadian official, simply because so many officials are Canadian. Some of USA's games had American officials too. There haven't been questions about impartiality until now. Sigh.
Nearly all of Canada's games had at least one Canadian official, simply because so many officials are Canadian. Some of USA's games had American officials too. There haven't been questions about impartiality until now. Sigh.
Wait... wait a second. Canadians have, allegedly, the best players. Canadians also, allegedly, have the best refs. These refs are present both in the NHL and international competitions where Canadian players excel. Maybe, perhaps, these Canadian refs are planted in power positions (
) in order to always give the advantage to Canadian players!
by some ominous shadow hockey government??
zer0blivion
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The officiating in the women's games was questionable, but it's been pretty solid on the men's side.
I went and checked, and yep, in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics final hockey match, both referees and one linesman were Canadian. The other linesman was Finnish.
Sweden needs to stop whining, not even the USA whined about this crap.
.... Canadian refs and players are actually reverse vampires! It all make sense now.Wait... wait a second. Canadians have, allegedly, the best players. Canadians also, allegedly, have the best refs. These refs are present both in the NHL and international competitions where Canadian players excel. Maybe, perhaps, these Canadian refs are planted in power positions () in order to always give the advantage to Canadian players!by some ominous shadow hockey government??
Prax
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And where is our stanley cup then
And the ref in the Women's Final was British.
We're used with Canadians having some advantage with refs on their side. Only makes the gold medal even more glorious.
Clearly.
:lol
ColonelSkills
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Generally being held aloft by Canadian players in various American cities.
I know a really good way to solve the issue of not having to talk about the potential bias of having referees from the same country as either of the teams playing... a way so good (and obvious!) that pretty much every international sport in existance practice it already.
One more crime against hockey for the man they call Floppa. #sad
Yes I'm still salty about forsberg, never liked him much lol.
Prax
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we have to learn that we can't annex america by implanting all our talent there
ColonelSkills
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Hey, they pay the bills and generally make a pretty good laughing stock of themselves on a regular basis.
I'm fine with keeping them around in a court-jester sort of role.
usernamechange
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only if this is your first olympics
They didn't have enough players from the Sens.
Unhandled Exception
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Ah the hotbed of intensity.
I'm going to be watching that Canadian border control show to see if he's coming over the border to get us lol
Congrats to Finland and to one of my favourite players ever, Teemu Senate.
Unhandled Exception
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Man fuck you, why you gotta hate on the man worth more than the collective history of either version of the jets?
zer0blivion
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Did anyone see this in the women's game?
Simon Belmont
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It's kind of amusing that you know fuck all about the NHL
Buba Big Guns
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One of the fuck alls I know is that most of the franchises still seemed to be based in the US. I am more of a soccer fan and it is a comparable situation with the Canadian federation not setting a domestic league, struggling with Canadians getting minutes in the MLS, then wondering what the fuck happened when Martinique, not recognised by FIFA, beats them. Obviously finding minutes for Canadian talent is less of an issue with the NHL.
Did anyone see this in the women's game?
WTF? Tell me that was called a penalty?
zer0blivion
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IIRC, it wasn't.
Edit: Just checked again, it was in the first period and no penalty was called.
Kabuki Waq
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Lmao wtf is this
Considering Canada has 1/10th of the population of the US?
There are 60 teams in the CHL and another four in the AHL. Not sure where you'd like these "independent domestic" teams to go. Besides, even if there were such a league, the best players would still go to the NHL to face the best competition and make exponentially more money.
But yeah, amusing.
Simon Belmont
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So you don't know a goddamned thing about the sport or the league, but you still feel like you're informed enough to add to the conversation. Gotcha.
gutter_trash
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There's an NHL team in almost every major Canadian city. The US has ten times the population that we do. It only makes sense that they'd have more teams.
Kabuki Waq
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