Canada-Sweden 5-1 in the Junior Hockey World Championships final
Tonight I lost a little faith in the country of Canada.
For you who don’t know Canada defeated Sweden in the junior hockey world championships final by 5-1 and, to be honest, Canada was the best team, by far. The game was played in Ottawa, Canada and Team Sweden fell short in coping with the pressure from both the canadian team and crowd. But so did the referees.
I won’t discuss it as the match summary videos will speak for themselves, but what you should know is that the swedish goalie was run over at least four times without any penalties for the canadians. Now, as Sweden really sucked big time in power play tonight, that wouldn’t probably change the final score, but that’s not the point. In hockey, the goalkeeper is more or less “holy” and everybody knows it. At least I thought so.
- Summary from swedish television SVT
- Swedish coach about the match (in swedish) while the crowd is booing the swedes
- Summary from TSN, Canada
It wouldn’t bother me that much to see a swedish team lose in a fair game to a better, well mannered, honest and respectful opponent. Unfortunately that was not the case tonight. It really hurt to see the few swedes collecting personal prices at the ceremony while having to listen to a booing crowd… Probably the worst thing ever happened to most of them, ever. Why would this never happen in Europe? Beats me. Or would it? Hope that mentality is not spreading.
Well, well. Anyway, Canada deserves their gold. Sports-wise, that is. But mummy ought to whip your asses and teach you some sportsmanship, that’s a fact.
Ojoj, imponerande att du bloggar på engelska kl 5 på morgonen
Was up al night watching this ugly game that was on display and if it wasent for the referes i think we would have won.
Note that next time a see a f canaidian going happy to a game here in sweden i will smash hes ugly clown face for cheering at there monkey hockey back there in canada!!
Well, let me play devil’s advocate since I am Canadian. Hockey in North America is known to be a pretty rough sport. Maybe it’s a lot different in Europe… but I hear the same song and dance from Swedes whenever they lose. It was a ref’s fault, they let the Canadians get away with everything. It all smacks of being sour over losing. I think everyone does it when they want their nation to win something, though. As far as I’m concerned it was a fair game… but then I’m biased in my own way like you guys. I certainly wouldn’t beat in some Swedish guy’s face for cheering on his team though. That wouldn’t be sportsmanlike
Oh, and anyone who booed the Swedes in the stadium were idiots. I admit that is bad sportsmanship, too. Also hypocritical. When Canada won in the 2002 Olympics in the US, the American crowd booed Canada and everyone here was whining about how rude it was, but then it happens in Canada. Very stupid.
Hi Kyle and thanks for your comment.
Of course I’m a little biased too. I’m aware of it and that’s why I tried to give both sides of the story by linking to the TSN and SVT summary videos. I’m not certain I would react in the same way if I took part of the TSN live version of the game as I’m now when having had the swedish commentators in my ears.
Some say the swedish goalie shammed the situations. I would say that he perhaps might have exaggerated some of them a bit but that the canadians got to close to him anyhow. But as I wrote, I think the canadians would have won anyway. With that beastie-like hunger and support it’s hard to beat you.
…if it only hadn’t been for the booing.
I don’t think Jurry really meant that, like he would beat the shit out of that cheering “canadian clown face”. I don’t know the guy but I’m sure it was a result of frustration.
There are 2 things required in order to win a hockey game:
1. Put the puck in the OTHER team’s net, and
2. Protect your goalie at ALL costs
You can’t blame a loss on poor sportsmanship, bad referees and other ‘disadvantages’.
That’s the harsh reality of winning and losing….
Hi Joey,
sorry, but I think you’ve misinterpreted me a bit. I didn’t blame the swedish loss on the canadians bad sportsmanship. Neither the team nor the crowd. I simply said that it is too bad and it must have really hurt the swedish players to be booed upon when receiving their medals.
And I don’t either think it is up to the defenders to protect the goalie at all cost but in tight situations in front of the net. It’s more or less a rule to not tackle the goalie, isn’t it?
To clarify once again, I think Canada was the better team, no doubt about it.
…and for that matter, do you really have to protect your goalkeeper in order to win the game?
I think only your point number one is valid.
Hi Henrik,
Maybe I should clarify: I did not direct my comment at you. I think that both you and are in agreence here. My comment was meant in general.
I have the fortune of being a Canadian living in Sweden, so it was interesting for me to watch SVT’s coverage of the game.
For being a Public Service Provider, they were very biased
I think that Jurry should read our comments a little more carefully before making any more well-versed enteries in this forum…
Yes, in hockey the goalie is considered to be sacred.
About SVT being too biased, I agree. Niklas Wikegård is a very emotional expert commentator who often gets his surrounding all fired up. Sometimes he, perhaps, gets a little too fired up himself and says things that sounds not that professional, but he never regrets what he has said which I find strong. I really like him and agree with most what he says. And that’s his job, to have oppinions but on the night of the finals the SVT commentators somewhat followed along, at least Marie Lehmann did. That’s understandable but perhaps not acceptable for a public service provider.
Wikegård has written a very good blog post in swedish about the final here: http://nyheter24.se/sport/blogg/niklas-wikegard/
Google Translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnyheter24.se%2Fsport%2Fblogg%2Fniklas-wikegard%2F&sl=sv&tl=en&history_state0=
And about booing. In the swedish national hockey league – Elitserien – it’s very common that the visiting team gets hackled a lot. I really don’t like this but it has been so common nowadays that you hardly react. But somehow I feel it’s different when it comes to international games. Can’t explain why, but it’s just not acceptable in that context.
I’d like to point out that, from what I’ve seen here, the booing was mostly for the Swedish king of sucker punches. When the other good swedish players were accepting their awards, most of the crowd was clapping.