Originally Posted by CDSmith

Some of you obviously know very little about reffing in hockey. As Jman and others have said they want only the best for the Olympic gold game, and the best hockey refs in the world are from Canada, and they are trained to be impartial.

Most NHL refs are from Canada, so you see them being partial towards Canadian-based teams? No? Then why would you think it would be any different here?


I tell you what, if the women's game had more professionally trained Canadian refs there would be a lot less bad/horrible/unfair/sucky calls. And it definitely wouldn't be any special advantage for Canada.