 Game four was played in Vancouver . Team Canada was surprised to find that the crowd booed Canada during the warm @-@ up and cheered louder for the Soviets during the game 's introduction . The game started with two consecutive penalties by Bill Goldsworthy and Boris Mikhailov scored power play goals on both penalties to give the Soviets a 2 – 0 lead . Goldsworthy , who had started in place of Wayne Cashman , wanted to replace Cashman 's truculence , but only hurt his team and was criticized privately by Sinden . In the second , Gilbert Perreault scored on a Soviet own @-@ goal to get Canada within one goal , but Blinov scored less than a minute later to restore the two @-@ goal lead . Rod Gilbert scored a questionable goal that was disallowed and Canada 's protests went unheeded . To Sinden , that was the turning point of the game , and the result could have been different had the goal been allowed , although Sinden admitted that it was " a beating . " Vikulov scored to put the Soviets ahead 4 – 1 after two periods . In the third , Goldsworthy made partial amends to get Canada to 4 – 2 , but Shadrin scored to put the game out of reach . Dennis Hull scored in the final minute to make it closer , but it was too late . 
