A fierce claim from Austria about the Lions’ goal – This is how the video referee of the match responds

After Saturday’s Austria-Finland match, the head coach of the Lions’ opponent Roger Bader posted harsh comments.

Bader told Iltalehti that Suomen Ahti Oksanen scored 3–1 goal was definitely preceded by an offside and that this had been reported to them by the game supervisor.

– The verdict at the end was bad. We know it was actually offside. That’s for sure, Bader said.

“Anyone can understand”

Was at the heart of the situation Jere Lahti says now that the events did not go exactly as Bader snorted after the match.

Lahti was the match’s video review consultant, i.e. the video referee, who rotated the slow motions of the situation and was in voice contact with the head referees.

According to Lahti, the case is quite straightforward. The jury did not find incontrovertible evidence from the slow-motion footage that it was offside. The second linesman of the match had allowed the game to continue in the situation on the ice, so in order to overturn this decision, the jury would have had to find certain evidence to prove otherwise.

– There is no picture in any corner where there is white between the puck and the blue line. Then the process is clear and the decision made on the ice remains in force, says Lahti.

The final decision was made by the head judges, a Swedish Christopher Holm and German Sirko Hunnius, who saw the same image as Lahti on the “pipe shelf” on the monitor in the steward’s shed. Video judge Lahti’s role was to rotate videos and talk with the head judges.

– It’s a collaboration, but the decision is up to the head judges. If anyone looks at the situation calmly, they will understand that there is no indisputable proof that would be required in this case. There is no drama in the situation, says Lahti.

Wall dispute

Bader also uploaded an intriguing claim that “important people” had told the Austrian team that the ruling was wrong.

– The game supervisor has not said that, says Lahti.

According to Suomalainen, the referee boss of the International Ice Hockey Federation has been in the discussion Danny Kurman.

– From that conversation, a word has been chosen here and another here. I understood that the discussion had rather said that they understand that Austria challenged that situation because it was so tight. What has been wanted has been taken from it and words have been put in someone else’s mouth. No one in this organization thinks it was unquestionably offside.