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World Cup: 2016 World Cup — Team Sweden Part II

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Karlsson is by far my favourite swedish player, he should play 2 min on PP as he does night in and night out in the NHL, and there should not be any question about it.
 
IceBjoern said:
I agree with you but your argument is more true for Canada and maybe Russia where you have a ton of high skill players to choose from. In the case of Sweden and Finland, we're limited to what we've got. Finland doesn't have a Selanne and Sweden doesn't have a Sundin.

And about the 50-50 comment... You could say that for every game in this tournament. I would personally give Sweden a small edge over Finland, however, I know full well how competitive the Finns are.
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Hmm. the russians are 250 million and have a great hockey culture but all they can accomplish when it comes to NHL players are 5 (Five) lousy 20+ goal scorers. Only ONE defenders score more than 4 goals... And KHL is a Back Alley League.


1. Alexander Ovechkin (LW) Washington Capitals 81 53 28 81 1.00 58 10
2. Vladimir Tarasenko (RW) St. Louis Blues 77 37 36 73 0.95 31 27
3. Yevgeni Malkin (C) Pittsburgh Penguins 69 28 42 70 1.01 60 -2
4. Nikita Kucherov (RW) Tampa Bay Lightning 82 29 36 65 0.79 37 38
5. Pavel Datsyuk (C/LW) Detroit Red Wings 63 26 39 65 1.03 8 12
6. Andrei Markov (D) Montréal Canadiens 81 10 40 50 0.62 38 22
7. Yevgeni Kuznetsov (C) Washington Capitals 80 11 26 37 0.46 24 10
8. Nail Yakupov (RW/LW) Edmonton Oilers 81 14 19 33 0.41 18 -35
9. Nikolai Kulyomin (LW/RW) New York Islanders 82 15 16 31 0.38 21 7
10. Artyom Anisimov (C) Columbus Blue Jackets 52 7 20 27 0.52 8
11. Dmitri Kulikov (D) Florida Panthers 73 3 19 22 0.30 48 0
12. Alexander Syomin (RW/LW) Carolina Hurricanes 57 6 13 19 0.33 32 -10
13. Vladislav Namestnikov (C/LW) Tampa Bay Lightning 43 9 7 16 0.37 13 1
14. Nikita Zadorov (D) Buffalo Sabres 60 3 12 15 0.25 51 -10
15. Fyodor Tyutin (D) Columbus Blue Jackets 67 3 12 15 0.22 40 8
16. Alexei Yemelin (D) Montréal Canadiens 68 3 11 14 0.21 59 5
18. Nikita Nikitin (D) Edmonton Oilers 42 4 6 10 0.24 12 -12
19. Nikita Nesterov (D) Tampa Bay Lightning 27 2 5 7 0.26 16 6
20. Anton Volchenkov (D) Nashville Predators 46 0 7 7 0.15 14 4
21. Mikhail Grigorenko (C/W) Buffalo Sabres 25 3 3 6 0.24 2 -10
22. Alexei Marchenko (D) Detroit Red Wings 13 1 1 2 0.15 2 1
23. Vyacheslav Voynov (D) Los Angeles Kings 6 0 2 2 0.33 2 0
24. Stanislav Galiev (RW/LW) Washington Capitals 2 1 0 1 0.50 0 1
25. Daniil Tarasov (RW/LW) San Jose Sharks 5 0 1 1 0.20 0 2
26. Valeri Nichushkin (RW/LW) Dallas Stars 8 0 1 1 0.13 2 -5
27. Bogdan Yakimov (C) Edmonton Oilers 1 0 0 0 0.00 0 -1
28. Alexander Khokhlachev (C/W) Boston Bruins 3 0 0 0 0.00 0 -2

1. Semyon Varlamov Colorado Avalanche 57 2.56 .921
2. Andrei Vasilevsky Tampa Bay Lightning 16 2.36 .918
3. Sergei Bobrovski Columbus Blue Jackets 51 2.69 .918
4. Anton Khudobin Carolina Hurricanes 34 2.72 .900
2. Ilya Bryzgalov Anaheim Ducks 8 4.19 .847
 
I wasn't that far off. This was back in March, mind you. Kinda botched the fourth line and Lehner, Steen, Kronwall and Z got injured. (If we are to take the practise lines as what we'll see in the tourney, that is)

Slimmy said:
Alexander Steen - Henrik Zetterberg - *Gustav Nyquist
Niklas Kronwall - Erik Karlsson

Daniel Sedin - Henrik Sedin - Loui Eriksson
Victor Hedman - Anton Strålman

Filip Forsberg - Nicklas Bäckström - *Carl Söderberg
Oliver Ekman-Larsson - Niklas Hjalmarsson

Gabriel Landeskog- *Patrick Berglund - *Joel Lundqvist :naughty:

Henrik Lundqvist
Jakob Markström
*Robin Lehner


*Alexander Edler
*Jacob Silfverberg
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So the replacement for zetterberg is scratched. What a non replacement then.
 
Interesting. Either they aren't taking Finland seriously or they don't want to risk injury on Lundqvist.
 
Not worried i think markstrom is an excellent goalie and is entering his prime now.

Enroth is garbage though. Lehner is a big loss if Lundqvist is injured.
 
Lundqvist isn't injured according to any of the major Swedish sources, but he won't start against Finland.
 
Nightmare scenario: Sweden wins both training games against Finland fairly easy = Sweden underestimates Finland when the tournament starts = Finland wins. So tired of seeing Sweden play below their level when it really matters. I hope they'll fail miserably in one of the pre-tourney games (like losing 5-0). That way they won't be overconfident when the tournament starts.
 
Sorey said:
Not worried i think markstrom is an excellent goalie and is entering his prime now.

Enroth is garbage though. Lehner is a big loss if Lundqvist is injured.
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Enroth have better saveprocent than Markström. Enroth was also part of the team when we won whc the last time.
 
ulvvf said:
Enroth have better saveprocent than Markström. Enroth was also part of the team when we won whc the last time.
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Markstrom is younger and more talented then Enroth though. Being part of WHC gold isnt a big deal, even Johan Holmqvist did that once.
 
bDtKarlsson said:
Nightmare scenario: Sweden wins both training games against Finland fairly easy = Sweden underestimates Finland when the tournament starts = Finland wins. So tired of seeing Sweden play below their level when it really matters. I hope they'll fail miserably in one of the pre-tourney games (like losing 5-0). That way they won't be overconfident when the tournament starts.
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I take wins over Finland both in pretournament games and during proper tournament. 3-0
 
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