Phantom Goal Costs Team USA at World Hockey Championship

I can't believe this happened, it's unthinkable. Torterella has every right to be pissed because his team was robbed. Wow.

what trips me out is that the tourney is being played in CANADA...the freaking land of hockey. it truly is unbelievable. if this happened to team Canada, there would be riots and violence in the streets...

I agree, didn't they have replays. If they had protested right away then the refs would have corrected it. It is tough to decide without replays.

that's what is so crazy cgull...there was a video replay...the game was held for a few minutes while the "goal" was reviewed by the powers upstairs...and they still called it a goal...even though it is blatantly clear it went through the side of the net.

@ Navin Vaswani
that's what is so crazy cgull...there was a video replay...the game was held for a few minutes while the "goal" was reviewed by the powers upstairs...and they still called it a goal...even though it is blatantly clear it went through the side of the net.

They must be blind then, even after the replays. They should fire the judges, how can they not see this.

i believe the goal judge in question did get fired. but still, something like this shouldn't happen in a high-profile tournament...especially since this is the first time Canada is hosting the tournament...it's unbelievable...it's a good thing most Americans don't care about hockey...because, man, if this happened to our team, there would be hell to pay.

but at the end of the day i still don't know how this could have happened. there had to have been more than one man watching the replay up in the booth...

Navin, I honestly don't get what "going upstairs" is all about in this case. If they actually did go upstairs, like you said, it is pretty clear that the puck went through the side of the net and it should be more than one person who gets "fired".

I wonder how many ways Tortorella can use "f**k* as an adjective (watch some of the replays that focus on him, he looks like he's going to have a stroke!)? Poor guy, although I did hear him say afterward that the team did not deserve to win the game.

Carolyn, I know what you mean. I've never seen such a blatantly wrong call been made before by the goofs "upstairs." There will always be human error in sports, but this one went beyond ridiculous.

And yeah, Tortorella is one colourful guy, and I can't blame him for dropping multitle f-bombs after last night. I heard him say the same comment about his team not deserving to win. His team had a 2-0 lead in the third period, after all, but that goal is still one tough pill to swallow, especially in a small tournament where the place you finish in the round robin is so important.

Tortorella is such a hard ass coach, I don't know why he tries to motivate his teams the way he does but it always seems a bit like reverse psychology to me.

As far as where the placings are in this tourney, I guess it could mean that if Finland beat Canada and US remains in third place, it would be Canada vs. US in the quarterfinals? Or, conversely, Canada beats Finland and Norway somehow ends up in third place, then it would again be Canada vs. US in the quarterfinals? I guess that is not exactly what either team would like to deal with that early in the playoff (for lack of a better word!) rounds. So, Canada had better just beat Finland and the US better stay in third so we can all redeem ourselves and end up eventually with a Canada vs US final, held in here North America. Wouldn't that be sweet!

i've never understood Torts much either...he throws way too many of his guys under the bus for my liking...

a Canada/USA final would be so freaking sweet Carolyn...so freaking sweet...

i think we'll be able to defeat the Finns today. they'll be missing Jokinen as he's suspended.

The music is the theme-tune from the UK science-fiction series 'Dr Who'.

The officials don't want the United States to win.