Has Sweden ever won over Canada in an elimination game in a best of best tournament?
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Garpenlöv had a shot in the crossbar at 2-2 in World Cup 1996. Would have been sour for these dudes:
Wayne, Coffey, Fleury, Shanny, Lindros (old), Messier, Sakic, Scott Niedermayer, Yzerman, Desjardins, Scott Stevens, Foote, Blake CuJo and MarBro among others. X-box was 9 (still a kid) and McD conceived at this height in/of time. Forsberg had his best NHL season and there were a whopping 35 swedes in the NHL (86 today). Synchronicity.
Even Darth Vader has to fight for his victories. That's why he carry a lazer sword.
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JackSlater
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No, Sweden hasn't ever eliminated Canada in such a tournament. Sweden has actually never eliminated Canada in an elimination game in the WJC either.
SirKillalot
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In 5 Olympics they have met three times...
1998: Canada-Sweden 3-2 (Group Stage)
2002: Sweden-Canada 5-2 (Group Stage)
2014: Canada-Sweden 3-0 (Olympic Final)
So, to even discuss professional level hockey head vs. head is just idiotic
And if we take 1994 too were even though NHL'ers didn't play, it was still equal rules for all teams. Sweden won in a shootout in the Olympic Final. So if one wants to twist it that way it's two win each in the last 6 Olympics. Which is still a stupid way to discuss things.
NyQuil
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Best on best it's been the Czechs ('98), the Soviet Union ('81) and Russia ('06), and the US ('96).
Yeah, but in juniors Canada should always win just because of their bigger pool of players to choose from.
Theokritos
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They used to be round-robin only up until 1996 though. But in the years since then, Sweden has met Canada seven times in elimination games and has indeed lost all seven games ('96; '99; '01, '02; '08, '09; '17).
NyQuil
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I agree that WJC isn't really a "best-on-best" because of the impact of the age-restriction on smaller hockey nations.
JackSlater
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Also because the best are never there, almost always even if we keep it to age eligible players. That Sweden hasn't eliminated Canada in either setting is mostly just some surprising trivia, especially the WJC.
Uncle Rotter
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Sweden has a terrible elimination game record against Canada at every level
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Uncle Rotter
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On the senior level it's not that weird since Canada always has the best team and has only lost a handful of elimination games overall.
On the junior level Sweden has only won the tournament twice ever, so it's not a Canada thing. My theory is that the Swedish player development curve is a bit different to that of most other countries. I don't have any stats or anything but it feels like Swedish players take longer to peak, but instead last longer afterwards.
On the junior level Sweden has only won the tournament twice ever, so it's not a Canada thing. My theory is that the Swedish player development curve is a bit different to that of most other countries. I don't have any stats or anything but it feels like Swedish players take longer to peak, but instead last longer afterwards.
sr edler
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Has Sweden ever eliminated Belarus in a best on best tournament elimination game though?
I think Swedish hockey fans in general view that one as much more embarrassing than losing to 0-3 to Canada in 2014 with your three best center forwards out of the game injured or suspended in H. Sedin, H. Zetterberg & N. Bäckström.
If Canada would have lost that game, now that would have been embarrassing.
But I don't know....
I think Swedish hockey fans in general view that one as much more embarrassing than losing to 0-3 to Canada in 2014 with your three best center forwards out of the game injured or suspended in H. Sedin, H. Zetterberg & N. Bäckström.
If Canada would have lost that game, now that would have been embarrassing.
But I don't know....
Hockeyfrilla
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It's always embarrassing when our senior best-on-best team loses an elimination game.
It's gold or nothing for them.
I'll always respect the Soviets, US, Russians and Czechs for doing it.
Big Phil
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The Swedes beat the Americans 9-2 in the semis in the 1984 Canada Cup.
Overall Canada and Sweden have a bit of a one-sided rivalry. It isn't like Canada/Russia or Canada/USA where they have won in the past vs. Canada. Sweden for some reason has more of a deer in the headlights against Canada in big games. I don't know what it is, but I've never thought Sweden would ever be the team we have to beat. They just always play the same style, year after year, and have more or less the same number of top end players that you need to focus on. Never been terribly deep on the top end.
