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.