Nystrom: Sweden must become better – Expressen

HELSINKI ??. Junior crowns killed voltage immediately against Slovakia.

Sweden were good – but needs to be much better for it to be JVM-gold.

It became 6-0 in the quarterfinals and a small revenge for the loss in the bronze match last year.

But now begins gold quest in earnest and the most difficult match is the semi-final.

As I write this, Sweden extended its suite of five straight win matches in the JVM.

Now wait semifinals against Finland or Canada.

With all due respect to Russia – who did not show enough respect for Denmark and had the sudden death of to win their quarter-final – it feels like Finland and Canada doubt as the tournament’s best team.

And the winners of their quarter-final thriller already has an awe-profit behind him before the semi-final.

Sweden have nice Segar in group stage against the United States and Canada – but the group stage is warming.

Playoffs are a different sport.

It is possible to praise Junior crowns too much and I really should just pay tribute to the team.

But then it becomes a tedious chronicle.

Let’s focus on what needs to be improved in order for Sweden to reach the JVM-final.

To begin with discipline must be improved, Sweden is the team with the most two-minute expulsions in the entire tournament and it certainly can not call the master class.

Boxplay is exceptionally good and in our television broadcast, I went so far in my tribute the first seizure pair of short-handed – understated Christoffer Ehn and Jacob Forsbacka Karlsson – I compared them with the murderous effective short-handed duo Jörgen Jönsson-Peter Nordström.

Ehn from Frölunda and Forsbacka Karlsson from Boston University, together with the tournament’s best goalkeeper Linus Söderström has been Sweden’s most valuable players so far in the tournament.

But that said, the number of expulsions must be minimized in the semifinals.

Since I still game in their own zone, up a notch, the players put themselves and each other in unnecessary trouble occasionally. Both passing and marking game can be implemented more quickly and efficiently.

In attacking game became a little too much solo runs against Slovakia

Easy happened in a match with such class distinctions.

But in a semi-final you have to go to more concerted attack and draw new to each other more.

As a junior crowns are also made glimmering here and there, it comes to making it more consistent.

It was a fairly easy victory against Slovakia.

While for Slovakia’s poor keeper Adam Huska was anything but easy.

The 18-year-old was the match MVP at least in the first two periods and will probably eventually give Henrik Lundqvist a real fight for the job in the New York Rangers, but Huska was alone for Sweden would be the least threatened – and it felt like game over already after 1-0 by Joel Eriksson Oak after just 5:10 of the first period.

Mostly there was of course much to be pleased for the Swedish part:

* Prospective Los Angeles Kings player Adrian Kempe scored again and has scored in three straight games. It is promising for the future.

* Joel Eriksson Ek show their potential more and more. He has technique, speed, physics, attitude – he plays hockey total. Minnesota Wild has a budding star in Clas Eriksson’s kid.

* Linus Soderstrom kept a clean sheet again and there is no doubt that Junior crowns has a potential gold goalie.