Easy to compare duos to trios.
Sweden has certainly an impressive defensive depth, no question there.
Sweden has certainly an impressive defensive depth, no question there.
Add these guys
Mozyakin-Shpiachev-Zaripov
Gusev-Prochorkin-Buchevich
Igor Grigorenko-Apalkov-Golishev
Dadonov-Burdasov-Perezhogin
Shipachev better Burmistrov
Mozyakin better Yakupov
Gusev better Kulemin
Zaripov better Nichushkin
He is not very good.
He is now playing better than in Montreal
somewhere in 2012)
Right now Perezhogin player Kucherov level
Which is it?
Swedes D-depth:
Karlsson - Kronwall
Hedman - Stralman
OEL - Hjalmarsson
Klingberg - Edler
Lindholm - Brodin
Ekholm - Klefbom
Larsson - Oduya
Enstrom - Ericsson
And on and on...
Russian F-depth:
Ovechkin - Malkin - Tarasenko
Panarin - Datsyuk - Kucherov
Kovalchuk - Kuznetsov - Radulov
Kulemin - Anisimov - Yakupov
Namestnikov - Burmistrov - Nichushkin
And on and on...