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Your Gold Medal Game On-Ice Officials

02/22/2014 at 8:02am EST

from Dave Feschuk of the Toronto Star,

It does, on the face of it, seem a little lop-sided.

Of the four on-ice officials assigned to work Sunday’s Olympic gold-medal game between Canada and Sweden, three are Canadian-born.

This fact hasn’t gone unnoticed in Scandinavia. Peter Forsberg, the penalty-shootout hero of Sweden’s 1994 gold-medal victory over Canada at the Lillehammer Olympics, reportedly texted a Swedish newspaper to register his dismay about the passport count.

“What a f---ing joke!” was Forsberg’s reported two cents.

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