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THIS!! Just a shame ...Russia would have scored you bet...Overall i think Russia was the better team one of the better Russian Junior team i have seen for many years. They should be proud and try to forget this bad call..if thats possible....a shame.....
Give it up rules are rules Canada is the world junior champions please stop whining its getting pathetic.
 
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Obviously you didnt bother to read the entirety of his thread.
In your right mind, do you expect that of every thread here? Even championship ones? Sheesh, people jump in, not all were in the original timezone for this or that.
 
So I missed the game. How did it end?

[edit: I'm looking at pages 131-133 of the thread and I can't tell. Someone put me out of my misery. I fear going further back into the mud-slinging contest.]
 
THIS!! Just a shame ...Russia would have scored you bet...Overall i think Russia was the better team one of the better Russian Junior team i have seen for many years. They should be proud and try to forget this bad call..if thats possible....a shame.....

The "best team" doesn't always win, just like the "best team" in the NHL (President Trophy) doesn't always win the Stanley Cup. Plus it's very subjective.. Canada won the gold medal. I think that's the best medal of the tournament. The camera was part of the game, just like the refs sometimes when a puck hit them and create a weird/lucky scoring chance. That's hockey.
 
So, Russia won?
In 2011. One of the Russian TV channels was showing a replay of the 2011 final on the same day (while the 2020 final was shown on another channel) and one of the Russian “celebrities” (a soccer player) congratulated the Russian hockey team with winning the championship on his Instagram account. A comical situation indeed.
 
Maybe it is time to shut this thread down Moderators.
Why? It's fun, I can't get over how many think Russia would have automatically scored on the 6-3 when Canada could have just as easily won the ensuing face off flipped the puck over everyones head and scored in the empty net, stranger things have happened...lol
 
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In 2011. One of the Russian TV channels was showing a replay of the 2011 final on the same day (while the 2020 final was shown on another channel) and one of the Russian “celebrities” (a soccer player) congratulated the Russian hockey team with winning the championship on his Instagram account. A comical situation indeed.
on the one hand, these people look like complete morons, but on the other, if I did not follow the hockey and performances of the national team, I would also not know that playoff games at a tournament of this level are always broadcast only on the first channel.
Anyway that victory deserve to be celebrated after 10 years, so that football player did everything right :laugh:
 
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IIHF trying to save face. The referees blew it, just admit it!

How many times does this need to be talked through? The rule has been already explained multiple times:

-IIHF rules say that if the puck hits a structure, no penalty is given. It makes zero difference whether the puck is/would have/should have gone out of the rink; the rule is written like that in order to simplify things and create less controversy.
-The rinks are inspected before every game by a referee team and the definition of a "structure" is decided already at that point. Cameras etc. that are attached to rink structures are commonly decided as such structures.

I don't understand how this is so hard for people to comprehend.

Also, is this seriously the only thing in the game left to write ifs and buts? Usually during a hockey game there are like 20 situations where IF the puck had gone an inch here or there it WOULD have made a difference (usually resulting in a goal).

Anyway, great game and congratulations Canada! The right teams were in the final, could have gone either way.
 
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The words or term “structural object” is not always as narrowly defined as you have stated above.

A “structural object” can be any object that is composed of multiple components organized in a very specific way. For example, the Unipod holding the camera and the camera attached is a type of structure. The glass enclosure is a type of structure.

Whether the intent of the rule book in its use of the words “structural object above the ice surface” should apply only to the actual building structure itself that I do not know.

One thing I will say the unipod and the camera are a type of structure and are partially located above the ice surface.

This could be the interpretation the referees took.

The glass is definitely a part of the rink structure. The pole is a part of the camera structure. Eg. Camera doesn't work without the pole/unipod. The unipod is located outside the rink. It's now on a plane to Toronto and the rink/glass is still standing. TSN has said they setup the camera on purpose out if the rink to avoid this kind of situation. I imagine a new rule will come specifically for the TSN camera.

As far as structures above... I imagine it's a general rule for low hanging rafters or something like that. Doubt the rule has been used once.
 
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How many times does this need to be talked through? The rule has been already explained multiple times:

-IIHF rules say that if the puck hits a structure, no penalty is given. It makes zero difference whether the puck is/would have/should have gone out of the rink; the rule is written like that in order to simplify things and create less controversy.
-The rinks are inspected before every game by a referee team and the definition of a "structure" is decided already at that point. Cameras etc. that are attached to rink structures are commonly decided as such structures.

I don't understand how this is so hard for people to comprehend.

Also, is this seriously the only thing in the game left to write ifs and buts? Usually during a hockey game there are like 20 situations where IF the puck had gone an inch here or there it WOULD have made a difference (usually resulting in a goal).

Anyway, great game and congratulations Canada! The right teams were in the final, could have gone either way.
This is the first time I've heard the refs got together before the game and said if it hits the camera it won't be a delay of game because the camera is a structure. Did you see this in a tweet, interview? Posting that would shut everyone up!
 
As if all Russians couldn't figure out the difference, and of course they also have internet and 24 hour live news but let's swallow this obvious bs.

He's basically calling Russians idiots.

No, no. He’s calling them ignorant. Huge difference.
 
The glass is definitely a part of the rink structure. The pole is a part of the camera structure. Eg. Camera doesn't work without the pole/unipod. The unipod is located outside the rink. It's now on a plane to Toronto and the rink/glass is still standing. TSN has said they setup the camera on purpose out if the rink to avoid this kind of situation. I imagine a new rule will come specifically for the TSN camera.

As far as structures above... I imagine it's a general rule for low hanging rafters or something like that. Doubt the rule has been used once.

You’re really reaching here. “Structural” isn’t defined by whether something will collapse if something else isn’t there.

As mentioned numerous times in this thread, most notably by Rönn, the cameras attached to the glass were identified as part of the rink before the tournament started.

This isn’t some referee conspiracy theory. People are getting all hung up on the rulebook, which obviously wasn’t specific enough for some people. That’s why this exact type of situation was identified pre-tournament.

It’s really not difficult to understand.
 
So we have the head official in Liiga who has been an IIHF sanctioned ref for years including world championship finals saying that the right call was made because the camera is considered structure, we also have the rulebook saying hitting any structure over the ice isnt a penalty, we also have a picture showing that the camera does in fact hang over the ice but we still have people in here saying it should've been a penalty.

Like I said earlier, theres a lot of people bitter their country still cant catch Canada in hockey and are grasping at straws to downplay this gold medal. With all of these facts out there now if youre holding onto your view youre just plain old biased. The controversial call should be the Hayton holding the stick penalty that Russia actually scored on.
 
He's spewing bs, sickening how many "experts" are unable to just post THE REFEREE'S SCREWED UP".
Russia had a crap pp and probably don't score anyway but still what a ballsup in such a crucial time.

Because the referees made the right call. I understand it’s hard to wrap your head around that when you’re blind with rage, but that’s what the rules say. And the referees followed those rules.

You’re welcome to argue it if you’d like, but you haven’t provided one actual point yet in all of your terrible posts in this thread.
 
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The object was not above the ice. It was above an area outside of the rink. The call was not in accordance with the rules. Simple fact. It doesn't matter now. But that's simply how it is. Bad calls happen to everybody, yes. This was a bad call.

I believe the interpretation was that since the camera is attached to the glass, the camera became part of the glass, hence no penalty.
 
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