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The story is correct as it is. The officials didn't see it. There were two players "behind" at one end as the action moved away down the ice. They grabbed the stick, pulled it away, skated it (quickly) over to their bench and tossed it to their bench, then joined the action at the other end. The whole thing only took a few seconds and I suppose most people were following the action at the other end of the ice, where the puck was. As I say, the goalie was screaming that they had stolen his stick, as were the fans.
When the action returned to that end, the goalie had no stick. There was really no other possible explanation for why he had no stick other than the one he said ... that the other team had taken it! What could have happened to it? The goalie threw it over the wall? The goalie's team took it over to their bench?
Anyway, the offended team decided not to play any more in that environment.
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