TAMMERFORS. No, not again.
Johann Garbenlov and his national team lost another 3-0 lead, when Canada switched and won the World Cup quarter-finals 4-3.
Garpenlöv now goes down in history as the worst league captain ever
The fiasco was completed on Black Thursday in Tampere.
This was not the end I gave him.
Especially not this way.
A tough ending can’t even be imagined all together and bad luck can be blamed, but no rating other than failing to put together this last performance.
A new losing lead led by 3-0, after the Swedes stopped playing and gifted the entire match to the opponent.
It’s as if yesterday I sat on a deserted podium in Beijing and saw the Finns do the same in the group stage of the Olympics.
Leading 3-0 after two periods, equalizing before full time and then losing in overtime.
Now the Swedish national team has exited this World Cup in just over a fateful two minutes, which will go down in history as one of the darkest tournaments.
It almost got worse now, when the carpet was pulled away too late and all of a sudden, that last disc slipped over the finish line behind Olmark with only 1.23 left to play.
The score was 3-3 and overtime.
Then he became the Swedish star William Nylander He was sent off after just 25 seconds of overtime and at four to three, Drake Paterson clapped 4-3 behind Sweden’s best player – Linus Olmark.
Once again, the fear of losing has become greater than the will to win and here, of course, the league leader gets Johann Garbenlove Take a lot of responsibility.
Maybe it happened once.
But two at once is too much.
Johann Garbenlov is now going down in history as the first captain of the national team ever to reach the top three at a world championship, or win a medal at the World Cup or the Olympic Games.
Liv Burke failed his only World Cup tournament in 1985, but he was still in the final and second in the 1984 Canadian Cup.
But after the fiasco at the World Cup in Prague, he was subjected to a storm of criticism from then-SHL coaches, to the point that he chose to resign himself.
Sweden’s first captain was Canadian Billy Harris, who took over from Arne Stromberg in 1971.
He was far from successful, but he managed to take the World Cup bronze in 1972 before disappearing as quickly as he came.
Then I can see the full lineup of national team captains from Kjell Svensson and Sura_Pelle Pettersson and even recent variants like Pär Mårts and Rikard Grönborg.
Everyone won World Cup or Olympic medals during their time in the booth.
Johann Garbenlov was completely without him, plus he took Tre Kronor to a historically poor ninth place at the World Cup in Riga last year, when the Swedes missed a World Cup qualifier for the first time ever.
No, it was a bitter end, but at the same time the Swedes had to blame themselves.
It couldn’t start better.
Karl Klingberg scored already 1-0 after 1.27 and gave the Swedes the opening opportunity.
A direct slap in the hand of Chris Dredger.
Klingberg who had scored his support for national team captain Johann Garbenlov prior to these qualifiers promised that he and the rest of the gang would do everything in their power to give Garpen a happy ending.
Then William Nylander who picked up the puck in a flash, then Joachim Nordström covered a shot in his own area.
Lost shots 19-1 per second
Nylander got free and I think he put the puck into the same Klingberg stitch that was already polka dots.
Very cool, very safe.
It was only 7.04.
Yes, Sweden then had a huge opportunity to increase their lead in both five for four and five against three and Lucas Woolmark missed a goal that was so open that he felt impossible to miss.
But he may have thought of Håkan Södergren’s old words that there is nothing more difficult than driving 3-0 in hockey.
It now came 3-0 in the second half instead, when Max Fribberg put the post up first and then directed a shot off Eric Gustafsson’s hill.
One of the few times the Swedes were in the Canadian region in the middle period.
Otherwise, Linus Olmark was against Canada in the period in which the Canadians won with shots 19-1.
I don’t know the last time as a Swedish national team they lost their shot stats this big in one period, or even if it happened. In this case, it must have been in the times of the old Soviet Union.
But the payoff came in third, and I can’t even describe the pick-up as unfair in a game where Canada won the shots 42-19 in the end.
Now I feel heavy, empty and sad.
How do players not feel then.