WC Hockey | Czech hell. Swedish stars suffered a horrible humiliation, writing in Finland

“Sweden has been disgraced in a horrible means. The Czech Republic eradicated Tre Kronor and superior to the WC finals. Sweden’s protection was weak and the attacking gamers didn’t make good selections,” for instance, Iltalehti wrote.

Rival Ilta Sanomat reported in an article: “Sweden was mercilessly destroyed on the earth championship. The stars from the NHL have utterly failed.” The paper didn’t fail to emphasise that coach Sam Hallam’s males are among the many massive favorites for gold.

“However, they acquired a tough lesson from the house staff within the semi-final. In entrance of a loud residence crowd, the Czechs beat the Swedes with a brutal rating of seven:3. And some Swedes took the defeat very painful emotionally,” stated Ilta Sanomat.

“The environment was hell. The Czechs felt the blood and the fanatical viewers made the house staff wonderful,” praised the commentator of the identical channel of the Ville Tour.

But even on Saturday night, the highest degree of the 2 Nordic international locations didn’t at all times have a look at one another. In Sweden, Jan Rutta’s battle on the pinnacle of Lundeström, who was not punished on the ice, was very controversial. In the camp of the losers, the prevailing opinion was that the Czech defender ought to have acquired an even bigger penalty and {that a} five-minute energy play might imply an enormous change within the recreation.

However, coach Hallam refused in charge the defeat once we blamed him. “I cannot be like one other staff right here on Thursday and say that on this second I’ve determined all the pieces. We mustn’t rely the entire recreation on this case. I cannot do this,” he refused to make an excuse to the referee, apparently referring to Finnish coach Jukka Jalonen, who blamed his staff’s elimination towards Sweden within the quarterfinals on the referee’s mistake.