Eye of Ra
Grandmaster General of the International boards
We really can't complain in regards to titles and performance the last years, 2 WC golds and we also became the most succcessful european team along with Russia in the "World Cup of Hockey" (last best on best) where we reached the semis and lost to "Team Europe".
But in the world cup of hockey against "team Europe" I saw the same thing as yesterday against Finland: Players played with extreme tension but I also believe that they feel strangled by the system that Grönborg tries to incur.
They seemed mechanical in movements and not at all playing by heart, but with that part of the brain responsible for long term thinking. Not by intuition but unable to relax and just play.
It was also a lot of tension, because they clearly felt they "should win" the game. But as I say, I think tacticals orders were so strong that they stopped playing by intuition ...
Not to retract from Suomi:s performace which was really excellent at such level that they might probably win anyway - but just regarding team Swedens performance - did you also see it the same way that I did ?
you forgot the lost to germany in olympics