In Gold Medal Game, how come only 3 out 4 officials were from Canada?

The NHLPA controls the assigning of officials to all Olympic Hockey games where a majority of players are members. Since Canadians make up the majority of members and contribute the most money, it only makes sense that the officials are Canadians.

What I think is that a clerical person made an error in similar first names and put down Stefan Fonselius name down as working the final instead of Stephan Auger and thats how he got in.

All 12 teams were informed before the tournament started that both referees in the Gold Medal game would be NHL referees (50% of the officials used since 1998 have been NHL officials). Each team before the tournament was asked to pick from the pool of nHL refs who they wanted to see. Canada, USA, Russia, and Finland all requested Bill McCreary

In the NHL, referees throughout the playoffs are chosen based on their performance. I assume the same reasoning applies in other tournaments as well. I'm so glad I get two points for answering this question. Wheee! I'm gunna take these two points (and $1.50) and buy a drink at the drink machine.

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Why are so many American's looking for loopholes? (Although I know there are many out there who are not)

If it makes you feel better, yes Canada cheated. It's all an ingenious conspiracy against the U.S....to win a sport.

It's too bad a brilliant mind such as yourself wasn't there to stop the plot as it unfolded.

aha so thats why they won, it makes sense now. i mean how else could they beat the US

lol just kidding Canada played well and i was at least happy to see crosby get the game winner

just drop it. They won, we didnt.