 Team Canada took a number of questionable early penalties . With two Canadians ( White and Peter Mahovlich ) off , Yakushev scored to give the Soviets the lead 1 – 0 . The game was delayed after a mistaken call against J. P. Parise , ( he was called for interference , but Parise admitted later he was guilty of cross @-@ checking ) and emotions boiled over . Parise was called for a misconduct for banging his stick on the ice , and when he saw the misconduct called , he dashed across the ice with his stick raised . Parise nearly swung his stick at Kompalla and got a match penalty . Sinden threw a chair on the ice . Some writers have commented that the incidents resulted in the rest of the game being refereed capably . 
