This tournament reminds me so much about sochi. There we also started good against czech, this time against russia. The whole team played great in that first game. After that it went downhill both times, and only a few player uphold the standards over the whole tournament, both times it was Karlsson and Bäckström.
Our first d-pair (then Kronwall and Ericsson, now Hedman and Stralman) in both cases they started the tournament good, then it went downhill, and they are in on pretty much all of the goal, while not contribute that much offensivly.
We have coaches that do nothing to change the negative trend.
A difference would be that in sochi the PP worked great (at least while Backstrom played) this time it didnt. For some weird reason they change the PP from sochi? The only thing that was really good in sochi, they changed? Makes absolutly zero sense.
Lundqvist was good overall, but in both cases he had his best games early in the tournament.
In both cases we left out our next best d-men, in sochi it was Hedman, this time Klingberg.
Both times OEL is a disapointment, even if I think he was ok this time, he do his job defensivly I guess, but I expect much much more off him offensivly.
Sweden team seems to top early with Grönborg in the staff lineup. The same thing we have seen in WJC over and over.
But congrats to europe, I will cheer for you in the final. It would be fun if you won.