TAMMERFORS. Three crowns against Canada on Thursday afternoon.
Quarter-finals are uncertain as no team is the favourite.
But Rasmus Dahlin and spy Thomas Montaigne know how to break the Canadian.
– We have the last change before the drawings and we will use it, says Montaigne.
– I’m going to get under the skin of the Cozens and get him out of the game, says Dahlin.
three crowns I had the strongest resistance possible in the World Cup quarter.
Canada, who have won three World Cup golds since 2015 and are the current champions, lost to Denmark in the group stage and finished only third in their group, meaning the ice hockey superpowers are already colliding this quarter.
severe resistance.
But Tre Kronor has good control over the opponent, and the spy and assistant coach Thomas Montaigne had gone to Helsinki and studied Tre Kronor opponents in private.
I’ve seen them in many matches and they are a good team and all the other teams now are good. I think it will be a great match and on Wednesday I will leave my report on Canada to the players and management.
What is Canada good at?
– They have good attackers, real backsides and mix skill and size. They want to play their own way and we will try to make them fail at that, Montaigne says and continues:
– They will try to match the back pairs against our top series. I am convinced of that. He could guess that they want Chabot and Graves in vs. Nylander for example. But we are a team at home so we can reward them away from home. Our last change before the graphics.
What will be decisive in the match?
– If we can play our game and have a lot of puck, it will probably go well. Montaigne says it would be too tight.
Rasmus Dahlen knows many players from the Canadian national team. Especially Buffalo colleague Dylan Cousins. He has the best plus-minus in Canada and has scored eight points in seven matches so far in the World Cup. Now Dahlin will make sure he stops and stays there.
We can take advantage of the fact that they’re so young and we’ve been drumming for 60 minutes so we have a chance to win and maybe the Canadians will start to take the chance. It will be a tough match, he says and continues:
Dylan is a very skilled and hard working, two-way player. He’s young and I know him and I know how he got under his skin. I’m going to make Dylan upset and take him out of the game and lose his balance. You can do this by physically playing against him. He can’t talk to him, and then just laugh, Dahlin says of his fellow Buffalo.