Sweden’s sweet success
Sweden 2 – United States of America 1 Even without Awesome Matthews and Matthew Tkachuk the Americans came out and scored 35 seconds into the contest for the early 1-0 lead.
You can forgive fans for making the supposition that team USA was about to steamroll the winless Swedes, but there were six power plays and not one powerplay goal in this low scoring affair.
Officiating went with all things being equal, as the referees whistled two penalties each period, one for each team.
Technically this game meant “nothing” in regard to this tournament, except that it did, Sweden’s pride was on the line and there are players endeavoring to get noticed for the upcoming winter olympics.
And it was not as if the Americans were not playing their best although without the Tkachuk brothers (Brady injured early) and Auston Matthews there seemed to be a different…focus to the team.
Thursday is going to be an exciting finish to this 4 Nations Face-Off Tournament, whichever team fans cheered for they cannot say this tournament was just an all-star fluff, no checking, play for fun style of hockey.
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