Riga. The legendary Jonas Bergqvist caused criticism for Tre Kronor.
Dennis Everberg is upset by the jump and responds the day after the Swedish team’s exit.
– I come in my spare time while I’m away from my kids at home, says the 31-year-old forward to Helsingborgs-Dagblad.
Tre Kronor lost the World Cup quarter-final to Latvia under the pressure of a die-hard Riga crowd, 3-1.
Then, former Tre Kronor star Jonas Bergqvist was one of those to raise his voice against the Swedish effort.
“Tre Kronor plays seven matches in the group stage. No player celebrates when they score. They reflect their passion for hockey to me. In a quarter, they meet a team that lives on passion. The result given to me. At the moment I feel like dirt. Jonas Berqvist wrote on the social media platform Twitter “Didn’t take a chance when I got it.”
“Just for passion”
The play causes Tre Kronor and Rögle Dennis Everberg to react strongly.
– In the first place, I think it was something he wrote in the heat of the moment, but I get pissed off. I have been away from my family for eight weeks and have not received a single penny for this problem. What the hell is this if not passion for the national team? I do my free time away from my kids at home. I don’t know why you would do it, if not precisely out of passion, says Dennis Everberg.
In contact with Sportbladet, the answer is that he told Helsingborgs-Dagblad what he thinks.
He believes the team has fired enough to do the job in the Ice Hockey World Cup.
– I think so. Then it was weird to get down on our knees 5-0 against Hungary and celebrate like crazy. We had a really good team and I thought we would go very far. We should have scored the 2-1 goal against Latvia, there were small margins while they made a heroic effort, says Dennis Everberg.
“Stronger than the local leagues”
Another senior profile on Tre Kronor commenting on this effort on Twitter is Håkan Södergren.
Tre Kronor had a team as skilled as the USA, Canada, Finland and Switzerland. What separates these countries is the old favorite expression of Tommy Sandlin. “Motivation trumps class.” This was especially evident in the match against Latvia. Regardless of merit or choice Or the salary, they are the biggest driving force a team/player can have.Playing in the World Cup is a step by step from leagues and qualifiers for national titles.You have to be mentally and physically tougher to get to a (-golden) washroom.Not all Swedish players were there There yesterday,” wrote Hakan Södergren.
Sportbladet has been in contact with several Tre Kronor players for a chance to respond to criticism so that it does not go unanswered and to give their opinion, but they have refused to comment.
Dennis Everberg already has two WC gold medals with Tre Kronor from 2017 and 2018.
Now 60-year-old Jonas Bergqvist, with Rogl as the parent club, has won three gold medals from 1987, 1991 and 1998 as well as an Olympic gold from 1994.