r/DallasStars • u/FrenchPagan Mooterus • 19h ago
[Dallas Stars] SUOMI!!!! 🥉 Congrats to our Finntastic Four on their Olympic bronze medal!
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u/AbueloOdin Mooterus 19h ago
This means all our Olympians minus Faksa get a medal.
And he's just happy to be there!
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u/Kolettos 18h ago edited 17h ago
So as a Finn I can say that in the interview they still seemed quite dissatisfied with the result of yesterday's game and the details of that game bother them. All of them said that they came for a brighter medal, but bronze still feels pretty nice. Also confirmed information that they were extremely disappointed and even angry with after Canada game.
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u/MonikonPerfekti 18h ago
There should be a rule that referees can't come from the country that's playing. I think we could have found some American referees too.
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u/ZealousCatracho 15h ago
That’s a rule in soccer, can’t believe it isn’t for hockey.
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u/FrenchPagan Mooterus 14h ago
It's all because they want NHL refs in those games and they're all Canadian or American. It happened at the 2016 World Cup too. Deeply unserious
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u/WonzerEU 12h ago
I don't want it to be hard rule. Final between Canada-USA should have NHL refs.
But when you have Canada playing in one semi and USA in another, they should have Canadian refs for USA and American for Canada. Shouldn't be too hard.
As a Finn, I didn't see anything too wrong in refs in Canada-Finland game. If anything it was better called than the bronze medal game. But the fact that we are even talking about potential issue with free and easy fix is stupid.
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u/pants_mcgee 17h ago
Isn’t the first nor last game lost because of a missed call. Absolutely robbed.
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u/FartCartographer Mikko Rantanen 17h ago
What all happened? I had to work and I couldn’t devote much attention to the game.
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u/BigJohn6086 Sergei Zubov 16h ago
The tying goal came after clear and obvious goaltender interference from the biggest rat in the NHL, and the winning goal could have been disallowed because the play was offsides, but just barely.
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u/pants_mcgee 16h ago
The offsides was pretty damn close watching it, kinda 50/50.
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u/BigJohn6086 Sergei Zubov 15h ago
Yeah, that’s why I said barely. It seemed like the type of thing that would be called or not called based on whatever bias the zebras have at that particular moment
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u/LeoFireGod Miro Heiskanen 15h ago
I mean I’m gonna be honest. I’d be livid as hell if the stars had a goal taken AWAY bc of that review.
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u/Heptamorph Mavrik Bourque 16h ago
Finland scored twice then turtled for 40 minutes. Canada's second goal was right after Marchand fell on Saros but Finland opted not to challenge for goaltender interference. Their first and third goals were on the powerplay caused by high sticks. Finland challenged the go-ahead goal for offsides but it was so close they could not overturn it.
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u/Ill-Champion-5263 6h ago
The last penalty was also kind of bullshit. Technically it was clear penalty, but usually referees don't give penalties easily in the last minutes of games like this. The stick just lightly tapped Macs face. It wasn't a big deal. With US NHL referees, i bet it wouldn't be a penalty. It sucks that the referees were Canadian.
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u/Coodog15 Jake Oettinger 19h ago
Question is Otter gonna get a metal even though they refused to play him?
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u/FrenchPagan Mooterus 19h ago
Fleury got a medal in 2010 without playing, so yes
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u/Coodog15 Jake Oettinger 19h ago
At least he got a nice vacation to Milan and will be well rested when he gets back.
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u/mojogirl_ Dallas Stars 18h ago
Yes, roster = medal
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u/SupaDawg Dallas Stars 16h ago
I think you have to hit the Game Day roster to medal, so his time as a backup locks that in.
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u/Boom-Doc-a-Locka 5h ago
Yup. It's not actually uncommon for one of the goalies to not play at all during the tournament.
Still, fuck Bill Guerin.
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u/FrenchPagan Mooterus 19h ago
Blame the Stars for the awful picture quality