Hockey Night in Canada host Ron MacLean is apologizing for remarks he made during game four of the Montreal Canadians - Tampa Bay game in Montreal that caused a firestorm on social media.
During the second period of last night's game 4 MacLean suggested that a french referee should not have worked the game. Many observers took that to mean he felt a french referee gave the Canadians an "edge." The issue arose after the Lightning coach complained his team lost Game 3 Sunday night because of a bad call from a referee.
Today MacLean was forced to explain. He said he only meant that he would not send an Alberta referee to do a tight Alberta game, and he would not have had a problem with a French referee working game 5, 6 or 7. MacLean added it was not his intention to offend anyone...and ”It’s not about French Canadians, certainly not about French, and that’s what I kinda triggered and it’s easy to step into that kind of mistake.”
The Canadians swept the series four straight.
