BOSTON – There’s a query of how many U. S. people there are. U. S. And Team Sweden would care about the meaningless endgame of Monday’s abundant 4-nation showdown.
Canada withdrew Sweden before the day when they beat Finland 5-3, and with Team USA they were able to win the game. U. S. He closed his spot in Thursday’s final when he beat Canada in Montreal on Saturday, there were no consequences for Monday night’s match.
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Well, because of the fact that they were keeping score, and because of the fact that there was a Tkachuk involved.
With Matthew Tkachuk no longer a caution after completing the game opposite Canada with a lower-body injury, it didn’t take long for Brady Tkachuk to show that this play mattered to him. Poor Leo Carlsson, playing his first game of the tournament. And lacking in Mattias Ekholm after that.
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That intensity, however, in the end charges tkachuk.
While driving hard from the puck to Sweden’s in the first period, Tkachuk lost his balance and slid into goalkeeper Samuel Ersson’s correct cushion.
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Tkachuk slowly climbed down from the ice and went to the bank. He finally returned to the U. S. locker room. The U. S. Army, however, returned before the end of the period, testing everything that was hurting him in a brief whirlwind around the ice a delay on television, stretching his left leg several times. He played a change that lasted 14 moments later and did not come out for the moment of the moment.
U. S. coach Mike Sullivan called the resolution a “precaution” and said the factor would likely be serious.
“I haven’t had an update after the game yet, so we’ll see how he reacts,” he said. “But I don’t expect it to be a problem. “
Competitiveness is great medicine.
After a timid begins to adjust on both sides, the intensity increased significantly as the game progressed. For example, at the beginning of the era, the U. S. team was able to make a difference in the number ofU. S. Jack Eichel, Jack Eichel The moment was stopped through Ersson, a shot that would have tied the game. He had a backhand and a mid-period stick stretch that nullified what seemed like a short-term purpose for Jesper Bratt.
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The game has become progressively more physical, as players learned if they played this mindless game, they might as well win it. The two groups combined for 10 hits in the first era and 16 in the second, and Eichel caught Carlsson with an open ice throw that sent Carlsson’s helmet flying just before the halfway point of the third.
These are not the moves of a guy who plays mindlessly.
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“For an adjustment that, for all useful purposes, wouldn’t make sense with respect to the tournament,” Sullivan said, “I realize there’s a lot of professionalism on both sides with the difficulties of the groups. “
One type of illness meant that Filip Gustavsson did not finish Saturday’s game opposite Finland, and on Monday some kind of illness also claimed that goalkeeper Linus Ullmark and forwards Mika Zibanejad and Rickard Rakell, as all 3 were marvellous stripes.
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 left after the morning skate that would be later that night.
“It’s quite nice, in fact, to notice a little bit 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 it opposes a very intelligent team. “
Ersson gave his teammates credit for playing well in front of him, however, the truth is that the U. S. had nearly two-to-one merit in the expected goals over Sweden, according to MoneyPuck, and Ersson reversed that merit.
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“Their goalkeeper played amazing,” U. S. striker Matt Boldy. “We had chances, he made saves. “
“We just didn’t have an answer for Ersson,” Dylan Larkin added.
Ersson was only in the team of an injury to Jacob Markström, and frankly, his game with the Flyadelfia Flyers this season would not have justified his inclusion. But that night, Ersson shone in front of a national crowd, and in front of his coach in Flyers, John Tortorella, who will have to have been the status of the USA bank asking where this edition of the Ersson edition was.
The lack of American team Matthew Tkachuk and Auston Matthews gave Chris Kreider a chance to get into the lineup, but they started the game. He grew up somewhere an hour away and played at Boston College.
It would have been a smart moment in itself, but Kreider made it even more significant when he got the American purpose in the first quarter of the game.
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Kreider had a game forged from that moment on.
“Drying that Kreids was playing well,” said Sullivan. “Obviously, he scored 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 questioning issues related to floating fitness on the U. S. list, Kreider would have possibly done enough to include the ultimate expression of the four nations opposed to Canada on Thursday. Sullivan did not reject the option and estimated that Kreider would adapt well to the flavor of the game that it promises to be.
“He’s a big, strong kid who can play a physical game. He anticipates it’s going to be a physical game,” Sullivan said. The two groups play one style, the two north-south groups playing with a ton of speed and a ton of physics. I think Kreids, his game, is definitely right. “
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