Decent job.. Two shorthanded situations were fought off. Thats big win when you think what kind of players Russians have on PP.
Lasse Kukkonen was injured, hit head first in the boards, the idiot ref no penalty.. Thought, it was partly Kukkonen's own fault, so 2min would've been enough. But still, you cant let that go if we follow the rules that there is in hockey and the line that we have been used to see in these EHT tournaments.. It's not like these tournaments are meant to be place where teams can lose their players on juries like that. Ridiclouse non-call. Then free PP to that Russian Dream team by clear diving.. what a softie call..
So the reffing has been horrible. This is allready hard enough, you would hope that they choose refs who aint afraid of Russians like some NA refs or Swedes.. (or finns :sarcasm). For some reason, I've seen too many times how refs from Slavic countries allways somehow melt and fear the Russians somehow. They let the emotions affect way too much.. Maybe they fear that people would shout at them if they whistled fair and Russian's happened to take some penalties.
Atleast team has understood who are the refs.. We haven't made a single hit, and last two games we were hitting all the time in every forecheck. They seem to understand that the refs will **** in their pants when the crowd starts roaring for penalty after clean hit.
And for our Czech and Slovak friends... No im not saying that its about your nationality or something
Its just couple of refs that you have on EHT..