{UAH} TO THOSE IN THE CITY WE FELL ON THE SWORD OF THE SWEDISH

Friends

 

This is what I have Been warning you about all long, in all these teams let alone Finland, Russia or Norway, we are the only team that can beat these craps. But we beat them for we get a chance to be lined up against them,  in the first games. The moment we do not get the chance to be lined up to play Sweden, they become an eminent danger. And here is why, when we play them at the lower level we use lethal force and simply yank them out. We simply cannot win them on the final game, and we have always had this problem. You see in the final game emotions get very high, we try not to make so many mistakes, and the under play gets into the belly. You do not want to split a piece of meat off a leg of an opponent in the final game for now they are going to cry we were attacked, but in lower games everything goes.  I watched this game and we simply played too well and a soft play, the attacks were very modest and we lost this cup which was ours by all standards.

 

Sweden is a very tough player and there is no two ways about it, but the only way they will always lose a cup is if we play them at a lower game and smash them out. There is always that under belly fear of playing them at final. So what happened here, we left the job of men, which is to eliminate Sweden way early, to the boys like Russia and Finland, they failed to do what was right and we have paid the final price. We protected the goal and we feared to attack, when all games we win, it is to blow the brains out of the goal keeper. The Swedish were laughing their heads off for we were simply not going there. We controlled all the power plays and we refused to be scored that is fine, but look at the final score, 2-1, they just whizzed by. When we come back to this eventuality, we need to accept to be very bad neighbors and do the right thing, Attack Attack Attack and Attack, at the end of the game the heads of the Swedish are going to firkin spin. We cannot lose a final to The Swedish again, either kill them at the beginning of competition or crash them into final they need to be beaten. Congratulations to The Swedish, but remember this always, we created Hockey and we are coming back for that God damn cup.

 

You might as well store it in Arlanda international for an easy pick up to Pearson International.

===================

Sweden defeats Canada in shootout to win 2017 IIHF world title

14/16

Sportsnet

Canadian Press4 hrs ago

 

©

CoLOGNE, Germany — Nicklas Backstrom and Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored in the shootout for Sweden as it beat Canada 2-1 on Sunday to capture gold at the world hockey championship.

Victor Hedman scored late in the second period shorthanded to give the Swedes a 1-0 lead. Henrik Lundqvist picked up the win in net with 42 saves.

Ryan O’Reilly tied the game at 1-1 with a power-play goal early in the third. Calvin Pickard stopped 40 shots and took the loss.

The win is Sweden’s first in four tries against Canada since the IIHF instituted the playoff system in 1992, and their first since 2013. Sweden stops Canada from being the first team to three-peat since the Czechs accomplished the feat between 1999 and 2001.

Just like in Saturday’s 4-2 semifinal comeback win over Russia, there was no scoring in the first period. After competing in separate groups in the preliminary round, the Swedes and Canadians went through a feeling-out process. Shots were 12-10 for Sweden in the first, with Canada easily able to kill off two penalties against the ninth-ranked Swedish power play.

Hedman got Sweden on the scoreboard with Nicklas Backstrom serving his second penalty of the game. Hedman’s bouncing shot from the point off a broken play eluded Pickard with 20.8 seconds left in the period.

The Canadians once again used their lethal power play to get back into the game in the third with Elias Lindholm whistled for high sticking at 1:48. It took just 10 seconds for O’Reilly to tie the game at 1-1 by flipping a Mitch Marner rebound over the right shoulder of Lundqvist. It was the first special-teams goal that Lundqvist had surrendered in five tournament games.

Canada tested its tournament-best penalty kill when Mike Matheson took a tripping penalty with 3:18 to play in the third period, but the Swedes matched them with an untimely too-many-men penalty with 1:24 left on the clock.

Sweden had a slight territorial edge in overtime by outshooting Canada 11-10. Sean Couturier was whistled for tripping with 10:51 left in overtime but the Canadian penalty killers were up to the task.

Alex Killorn fed Matt Duchene with a nifty spin-o-rama pass late in overtime, but his shot was stopped by Lundqvist.

Sweden called a timeout to set up an offensive-zone faceoff with 21 seconds left to play in overtime. Claude Giroux won the crucial draw to allow the Canadians to get the puck out of danger and set up the shootout.

In the shootout, William Nylander was denied by Pickard, then Nathan MacKinnon couldn’t slip his shot through Lundqvist’s five-hole. Backstrom, Sweden’s second shooter, beat Pickard low to the stick side before Brayden Point’s attempt was snagged by Lundqvist’s glove. Oliver Ekman-Larsson caught Pickard moving to put Sweden up 2-0, then Ryan O’Reilly was denied by Lundqvist. Pickard kept Canada alive by stopping his Colorado Avalanche teammate Gabriel Landeskog before Lundqvist stopped Marner to secure the gold for Sweden.

Earlier on Sunday, Russia defeated Finland 5-3 to capture its second consecutive bronze medal.

EM

On the 49^th Parallel          

                 Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
                    Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko"