GDT: Sweden vs Great Britain

[Chimpradamus]

I know there's not a thread and the game is irrelevant, but I just want to say Sweden has a very interesting recipe forming a somewhat better team than when you look at the individual parts. The offense is mediocre, with a pair of mostly unknown NHL players. The rest are just hard working, high pressure SHL players but I must say they have impressed me more than usual.

At defense the Swedish team has a couple of strong NHL players such as Rasmus Dahlin, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Erik Gustafsson (CHI, no one knows who he is) is working some magic. And yeah, some other I can't remember. Lindholm being a pillar? Larsson is a beast. The defense is stacked. Then we have some unknown NHL goalie from Detroit (Hellberg) that hasn't sucked but hasn't been great either.

What I do know is this Swedish team is a nightmare for Britain. They're very hard working and intense up front, two-way beasts at forward and the defensemen - the skill players - are at the back. It's much more difficult to shut down defensemen than forwards for the weaker team. Not an option for Britain this game.

It's 4-0 after the first and this will probably be a slaughter.

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[Chimpradamus]

Sorry, now it's 5-0 after the 1st. Holy hell.

 

[EK47]

The game is so exciting that we needed to threads

 

[FinPanda]

GDT: - Sweden - UK

Sweden will only play with 10 forwards today. Im expecting a close game.

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[Chimpradamus]

The game is so exciting that we needed to threads

Probably not considering the lack of storm when the thread was created. Well, nothing much happened in the 2nd period, Sweden just played it off while GB try to get some dignity back.