Missed call by referees may have completely changed the Canada/Czechia game

The NHL's return to the Olympics Games in 2026 in Milan has been a major success for the Winter Olympics and the NHL as a whole, and in the quarterfinals, the play has been taken to another level entirely.

The best of all the games at the tournament thus far was a quarterfinal game between Czechia and Canada, which saw Canada tie things late before Mitch Marner ended it with a beautiful overtime goal.

It was a dramatic finish to a game that saw Canada come from behind not once, but twice, with Nick Suzuki tying the game with just three minutes left, but now a brutal missed call has revealed that Czechia shouldn't have gone ahead in the first place.

While many picked it up in the moment, people on social media have now gone back and taken proof of the missed call, which saw Czechia playing with six men on the ice when Ondrej Palat buried a goal to put them up 3-2 late in the game.

Very blatantly, Czechia had six players on the ice, and while most calls for too many men involve a change, Czechia had all six players in action at once, even blatantly celebrating with six players following the goal.

It's unclear exactly why the officials missed it, as well as the Canadian coaches, who should have very clearly seen the advantage that Czechia had, and while the Canadians would go on to win in dramatic circumstances, if they'd lost, it would have been one of the worst missed calls in recent hockey memory.

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