Floppivaara! A harsh assessment came from Tre Kronor: “Strange”
The Swedish NHL star team’s medal hopes in the Olympics took quite a hit as the team finished third in their group behind Slovakia and Finland.
A weak group stage placement meant that if Tre Kronor makes it through Tuesday’s quarter-final against Latvia, they will face a team filled with NHL stars from the USA in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, they would likely meet the tournament’s biggest favorite, Canada.
The Score particularly highlights several lineup decisions made by head coach Sam Hallam during the group stage.
– Sweden is its own worst enemy, the site begins.
– The players have underperformed, but Hallam’s decisions have also been strange. Filip Forsberg – one of Sweden’s best players – was left as an extra forward at the start of the tournament.
– In addition, Hallam has played the underperforming defender Victor Hedman far too much. To top it off, the coach stubbornly kept Filip Gustavsson in goal, even though he let in two of Italy’s four and two of Finland’s first six shots behind him.
The path to the medal games for a confused Sweden currently seems very rocky. Simply defeating the US star team in a possible quarter-final matchup feels like a distant dream at the moment in the western neighbor.
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