 Soviet referee Yury Karandin officiated the game as a linesman.Flyers head coach Fred Shero jokingly told low-scoring defenseman Joe Watson that he had set the Soviet hockey program back 25 years by scoring a shorthanded goal on the great Vladislav Tretiak.Amidst the Flyers' pride in their convincing victory against an outstanding team, the seeds of contentiousness had grown even further.