If You Thought NHL Officiating Was Bad, Then Watch This

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Team USA gets screwed, gets angry and gets violent
Published 5/12/2008 at Puck Daddy
... the third to lose its second game of the tournament. Adam Burish was ejected for butt-ending a Finland player with his stick. Olli Jokinen hit Tim Gleason from behind in the first period, and will miss today's game against Canada, as will Salmela for his postgame fight. Backes will miss the U.S. game against Norway today because of the brawl, but will be back for the start of the quarterfinals on Wednesday.  More on the phantom goal from Schultz at FanHouse, Mirtle at Mirtle, and in a rollicking discussion over a dozen ...

History Repeating
Published 5/12/2008 by Kevin at BfloBlog.com
It’s always fun watching history repeat itself. Case No. 1: the goal through the side of the net that was allowed to count after a review in the USA vs. Finland game at the 2008 World Championships. Here’s the video: Kevin Schultz from AOL Fanhouse comments and tries to say this is worse than NHL officiating: OK, so the refs missed the call. Not so bad, right? Wrong. The kicker here is that the goal was reviewed and still wasn’t over ...

Here Come The Red Wings ... Duck! [NHL Closer]
Published 5/13/2008 by Leitch at Deadspin
... * This just in: international referees suck just as bad as their NHL counterparts. The only difference is that their ineptitude is measured using the metric system. [NHL Fanhouse] ...