from Iain MacIntyre of Sportsnet,

The Vancouver Canucks were robbed, which actually seems pretty fair since their goalie, Thatcher Demko, was stealing goals from the Calgary Flames for most of the game.

The Flames’ 5-4 overtime win Friday night was made possible by a power-play tying goal with 3:13 remaining after a high-sticking call against Canuck Elias Pettersson that was highly-contentious, possibly wrong, and absolutely unauthorized as it appeared to be made by a linesman.

The National Hockey League rulebook allows linesmen to make a high-sticking call “when it is apparent that an injury has resulted from a high-stick that has gone undetected by the Referees and requires the assessment of a double-minor penalty.”

Pettersson, who happens to be the Canucks’ best player and one of their top penalty killers, was assessed only a minor penalty at 15:38 after linesmen Devin Berg and Trent Knorr huddled with referees Kevin Pollock and Kelly Sutherland. Neither veteran referee has his hand in the air when Berg whistled the play while the Flames were in possession of the puck.

If it wasn’t immediately apparent that Flame Walker Duehr was not injured, it should have been when he went back at Pettersson in the neutral zone after the whistle. It appeared on replays that Duehr had lifted Pettersson’s stick with his own as it came up and struck him.

“Very frustrating,” Pettersson said. “Yeah, I don't know what to say. I'm just pissed off.

continued with video of the penalty.

Watch the game highlights below, the controversial penalty is not included.