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Hockeyfrilla said:
Dont understand this "we dont care about bronze medal" We dont have alot of medals at all from this event. Should care alot even if its bronze.
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Well, I am sure that the players did care. Was just a coping mechanism by the fans to pretend to not be upset. I just don't see the players being gutless and not caring about a medal.
 
This talk of a bronze medal being meaningless is irritating.

I doubt the players, although surely disappointed that their dreams of gold have vanished, forget that they don't play for themselves as individuals. They play for their teammates, their coaches and team staff, the families who have supported them throughout their hockey careers, their friends who want to see them do well, and their country who wants to take pride in their play, even if a game's reward is "just" a bronze medal.

I didn't see the game, so I can't comment on the compete level of the Swedish players. If they appeared to some not to care, isn't it at least as likely that they simply had a bad game?
 
Strange bronze medal game.

Bittersweet win for the US I'm sure. After putting up 8 against Sweden those boys no doubt feel like they should be in the main event right now.

Really disappointed that Will Nylander wasn't able to play, Sweden would have been a completely different team with him playing. Definitely a year they would like to do-over I'm sure.
 
DaJackal said:
Just wow. I know USA & Canada usually have problems to get motivated for bronze medal games, but this time it was another way round. I feel both sympathy and disgust for the swedes - sympathy because their team was better than this (the whole tournament considered), but disgust because most of them just stopped caring after the 2nd. Every time you play for your country it's a priviledge and you should give 110% effort until the time runs out, no matter what the score is. Anyway I hope that the Finnish tabloids can stay classy for once and not mock the swedes for this.

Congratulations USA, you deserved it!
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same story as last tournament, swedes did not care vs slovakia.....
 
Definitely glad we got bronze. I think the whole "the players dont care" thing is overrated. Most athletes I know care about winning a ping pong match, never mind a WJC Medal game. If it does happen, I blame it directly on the coach for letting that mindset in.
 
The kids already said in the newspaper before, Gold or nothing.

Hope they learn and grow in NHL and become a prof there, thats far more important that anything. Of course big money too ;)
 
Who cares if Sweden cared? Not me. It was a great game by the US. They beat up Sweden and took that bronze medal and that was fun for me.

USA!
 
As a fan I don't really care about bronze medals but it's still better to win them than lose them so I'm glad the players cared.
 
Stop this nonsense fellow Swedes. The Swedish players talked before the tournament about getting revenge for that loss in the bronze medal game against Slovakia last year. Most of these players will never play for a national team again and they know it, of course they wanted to end with a medal. They faught hard until the game got out of hand but just weren't good enough.

The result is not shocking at all, this age group has lost by double digits against USA in the past. They were just flat out better than us.
 
Huffman said:
Stop this nonsense fellow Swedes. The Swedish players talked before the tournament about getting revenge for that loss in the bronze medal game against Slovakia last year. Most of these players will never play for a national team again and they know it, of course they wanted to end with a medal. They faught hard until the game got out of hand but just weren't good enough.

The result is not shocking at all, this age group has lost by double digits against USA in the past. They were just flat out better than us.
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Well put, It's just fans trying to make themselves feel better.

Late congratulations to USA!
 
Huffman said:
Stop this nonsense fellow Swedes. The Swedish players talked before the tournament about getting revenge for that loss in the bronze medal game against Slovakia last year. Most of these players will never play for a national team again and they know it, of course they wanted to end with a medal. They faught hard until the game got out of hand but just weren't good enough.

The result is not shocking at all, this age group has lost by double digits against USA in the past. They were just flat out better than us.
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Like they said it was gold or nothing before that aswell...

But okey if you say so, but that game told us otherwise how much they really cared about this game.
 
US got more talent. For the Swedish team to compete they need to be 100% focused and play at the best of their ability. In this game the D's were down at 90% and the americans are simply to good to be given the extra time and space. Also, the goalie change didnt help. Not that the Swedish goalie was bad but he is much smaller in net and that got exposed in all those deflections etc...

But didnt Sweden win the shots? ;)
 
It's crazy how USA does well against Sweden in the Medal rounds but can't beat Russia when the two are pretty similar overall in the post Soviet era. I guess match ups and all. I'd rather USA play Canada than Russia the way things seem to go.
 
Ron Wilson hates Canadian hockey so much, over the years he has always been quick to rant and rave about it, you can just tell his seething attitude towards it that spills out in uncontained arrogance every time he ever comments about it.

Ive been saying for years he should have a little class and just go out and coach because it will continue to bite him in the ass but the guy wouldn't listen and I said before the Russian game that his team would pay for that arrogance but the guy just wouldn't listen.

Guess he just got what he deserved:sarcasm:
 
The "not caring" excuse is aggravating, but no one outside of the team's own fanbases ignores the team's performance for disgracefully mucking it up with some lame excuse that basically translates to "well yeah, you beat us 8-3, but we let you do that to us because we're above this game". If Canada got hammered by Denmark 5-0 in the Bronze medal game, I would just say we played like ass and got ourselves destroyed by a team that simply played a lot better than us that one particular game, not that Canada threw away the game on purpose. Which is what these Swedish fans imply.

But in any case, there's no comeback in such a discussion because it's a very weak argument. The majority will see it as Sweden got clobbered 8-3 by the US, just like the US got royally wrecked by Finland 5-1 because the Finns outplayed them and the US couldn't cope, or that the Czechs embarrassed the Russians 3-0 in '06, or that a Gretzky-led Canada was beaten by the Finns in 98. You can make up excuses for these teams all you want about how they handed the victory to the other team, but it doesn't make up for the fact that they simply lost and were beaten by the better team that night.

A cross-sport example: Brazil definitely wanted to beat the Dutch on home soil in 2014. I watched that game, it was more that the Dutch shouldn't have cared since they were runner-ups in 2010 and lost the semis painfully to Argentina in a PK. But they did, and they added to Brazilian humiliation with a cumulative 10-1 scoreline over their final two games of the first WC tournament they hosted in the past 60 years. You can't convince anyone other than Brazilian fans that Brazil didn't care, they just got easily exposed by the better team. Like Sweden's juniors just did :)
 
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