They did a lot of things really well, but their big advantage was they played a good ol fashion trapping style. The Finns is basically the only country that has kept doing that the last decade. And the Swiss of course. Remember that the Swiss has been to a couple of Finals too the last years. They almost beat Canada too.
Teams have had problem trapping in Club hockey. It just takes too much discipline to do it a full season and you get so little offense out of it now compared to the 90s and the redline offside was removed (98 in Europe and 05 in NA).
But a result is that teams aren’t that good at playing trapping teams anymore. They make the classic mistakes. You must step back a bit, never gamble,
We don't trap. We beat Swedes and Russians a with a high forecheck. We made it hard for them to play the way they like. We didn't trap against Canada either.
