“Giant collapse” – Sweden shocked by shock loss at World Cup, NHL star wonders after cooling off

The Swedish men’s national hockey team suffered a shock loss against Canada in the semifinals of the World Hockey Championships in Tampere. Sweden already led the match 3-0 before the final round, but ended up with 3-4 goals in extra time.

Canada finished the winning goal with superiority Drake Batherson directly Mathew Barzalin from the feed. The NHL star took the bitter cool in Sweden William Nylanderwho hit the 2-0 lead in the Swedish opening round.

– I think it’s cool to put up with. It was as if he was walking towards my skates. I don’t know, Nylander spun to Expressen.

Nylander overthrew Batherson in his own defense. From the TV image, it looked like Batherson stumbled on Nylander’s feet.

The loss was headlined in the Swedish media in much the same style. The word collapse was repeated in all headlines.

– The collapse of Tre Kronor – Canada dropped from the sequel after the giant thriller, Swedish broadcaster SVT wrote in its headline.

– Sweden collapsed, while Aftonbladet made the headline.

– Canada dropped Sweden after the giant collapse, Expressen wrote.

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Sweden led the match two more minutes before the end with two goals, however Pierre-Luc Dubois brought the Canadians to the top of the goal with a time of 58.07. Half a minute later, Barzal threw an easy shot from the knuckle that went Linus Ullmarkin from the armpit to the network.

Dubois’ goal was seen Rasmus Dahlinin during the cooling. Dahlin got two minutes to delay the game.

– This is shit. We had a good lead, but Canada had good times and Linus played a good match. But they got way too many shots, defender Dahlin commented on Aftonbladet.

– This feels very heavy. We had something really good going on.

Last time as head coach in Sweden Johan Garpenlöv did not escape criticism after the match. SVT expert Jonas Anderssonin according to Sweden played too much in terms of defense.

– Sweden retreated too early and defended its territory. Leading players and coaches have a responsibility in a situation like this to make sure the team doesn’t end up in a defensive stance, Andersson said.

Sweden, led by Garpenlöv, did not make it to the playoffs last year. At the Olympics, Sweden was left without a medal when it bowed to Slovakia in a bronze medal match.

– I wish him success here. He is an immensely sympathetic person and he knows a lot. But his performance as head coach is poor and this is a big failure. There is no other way to see this, Andersson summed up.