As for Canadians being more subtle racists and bigots than Americans, that's probably true...ditto for the Swiss, the Dutch, and people from Iceland. There being no objective measure of this, we'll just have to pass on that point. I recall attending a game where the Edmonton Oilers were at the Cap Center in Landover, Maryland, where Grant Fuhr had bananas thrown at him and got called a ******, so maybe that's a poor baseline for comparison (the upside to that night was that a kid named Gretzky had like ten assists, which i believe may still be a standing record). So to the bigots and racists out there, I say "F.U."
But I digress.
Brash got a shabby call there, but I doubt that race or nationality had much to do with it, any more than religious identity had to do with Jeff Halpern or Mathieu Schneider getting a 5-minute major for whatever. Officiating ain't perfect, but as a 'subjective science' I think they do rather well.
