Boston – There is a consultation of how many US groups and the Sweden team would be a matter of meaningless meaning of the rabid component of the confrontation of the four nations on Monday.
Canada had retired to Sweden before the day he won Finland 5-3, and with the United States team that blocked his position in the last on Thursday when he beat Canada in Montreal on Saturday, there is no result for the adjustment on Monday night.
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Well, with the exception of the fact that they maintained the score, and with the exception of the fact that there is a worried tkachuk.
With Matthew Tkachuk out of play with a caution after finishing the opposite adjustment to Canada with an injury in the framework of decrease, Brady Tkachuk did not take time to show that this game told him. Poor Leo Carlsson, playing his first tournament game. And poor in Mattias Ekholm after that.
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That intensity, however, in the end load tkachuk.
When driving strong from Sedède in the first period, Tkachuk lost his balance and slid to the right cushion of goalkeeper Samuel Ersson.
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Tkachuk was slowly delivered and went to the bank. Although everything returned to the wardrobe of the United States, but returned before the end of the period, testing everything that damages a brief whirlwind around the ice a television time, stretching his left leg several times. He played a quarter of paintings that lasted 14 moments after that and did not pass out for the moment.
American team coach Mike Sullivan described the “caution” resolution and said the consultation would not be serious.
“I haven’t had an update yet after the game, so we’ll see how it reacts,” he said. “But I don’t hope it is a problem. “
Competitiveness is great medicine.
After starting a shy of the adjustment on both sides, the intensity resumed significantly during the game. For example, in the game of the era of the moment, the center of the US team. Jack Eichel introduced a lazy pass in the ice media in his own domain that was selected through Sweden, a game that surely would not have done if this game had the impression. At the end of the time, Eichel reviewed and visibly disappointed through himself when a single handle in force at the end of the moment arrested through Ersson, a shot that would have matched the adjustment. He had a backpack and a stick upriser halfway from the third era that he canceled that it seemed to be a term purpose for Jesper Bratt.
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The game has become gradually more physical, because the players managed to play this meaningless game, they can also win it. The two groups combined for 10 blows in the first era and 16 in the second, and Eichel caught Carlsson with an open ice that sent the Carlsson guide wheel just before the point halfway through the third.
They are not the movements of a type that the meaningless game.
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“For an adjustment that, for all useful purposes, did not make sense regarding the tournament,” said Sullivan, “I realize that there is a lot of professionalism on both sides with the difficulties of the groups. “
A type of disease meant that Filip Gustavsson finished the opposite adjustment to Finland on Saturday, and on Monday a type of illness also claimed goalkeeper Linus Ullmark and attackers Mika Zibanejad and Rickard Rakell because the 3 were surprised scratches.
This gave Ersson a possibility in order, turning Sweden into the only tournament team to use his 3 employers, and was excellent, specifically by avoiding a Brock Nelson getaway with just over six minutes with the progress of a Sweden purpose.
Ersson said he had discovered after the morning skate that would be later at night.
“It’s quite pleasant, in fact, notice a little later so you don’t have time to get nervous. But you see it for what it is, it’s just another game, with shame that opposes a very intelligent team. “
Ersson gave his teammates the credits for having played in front of him, however, the truth is that the United States had a merit of almost two to one in the expected objectives in Sweden, according to Moneypuck, and Ersson overthrew this merit.
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“His goalkeeper played brilliant,” American striker Matt Boldy said. “Probably, made stops. “
“We just didn’t have for Ersson,” added striker Dylan Larkin.
Ersson was only a component of the Jacob Marksröm lesion team, and frankly, his game with the Phryers of Philadelphia this season would not have justified his inclusion. But on tonight, Ersson shone in front of a national audience, and in front of his main coach with the Flyers, John Tortorella, who was going to withstand the US team team. UU. , Wondering where this edition was erson.
The lack of American team Matthew Tkachuk and Auston Matthews gave Chris Kreider the opportunity to enter the alignment yet to start the game. He grew up about an hour and played at Boston College.
It would have been an intelligent moment in itself, but Kreider made it even more significant when he obtained the American purpose in the first quarter of the game.
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Kreider had a forged game from that moment.
“I imagine Kreids played very well,” said Sullivan. “Obviously, he scores the goal, but he made more than scoring goals. He can skate, it is an intelligent size, he can kill penalties, he played in the Force game. We played it with Jack Eichel and I idea that there was an intelligent compatibility there. “
With so many interrogation problems related to floating aptitude in the United States list, Kreider would have possibly done enough to include the latest in the four nations opposed to Canada on Thursday. Sullivan did not reject the option and estimated that Kreider would adapt well to the taste of the game that promises to be.
“He is a big and strong child who can play a physical game. He plans to be a physical game,” said Sullivan. “The two groups play a style, the two northern-south groups that play with a ton of speed and a ton of physics. I think Kreids, their game, is undoubtedly appropriate. “
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