The first steps in the tournament has been positive.
Still, it is now it begins in earnest.
Russia will set the first real question to Junior crowns.
I am very curious about the answer.
Junior crowns had the match freely yesterday and that means training day. It was the day before the meeting with Russia and we went out to the gymnasium Kipling, twenty minute drive from the city center. This keeps both the Maple Leafs and Marlies farm team to.
On one of the four rinks in the giant complex undertook the Swedish team a short but focused training. Gustav Forsling was about to shoot William Nylander in the head. Linkoping Hill got a smile back from a quickly crouched Nylander.
The speed was high, but most of all I was impressed by the precision of the passes and the heat towards the goal.
Afterwards, a joint-ice sessions.
Do adage “you play like you practice” wins Junior crowns against Russia.
“Tried not to think about it”
Toronto do not seem to have understood that it is winter. Instead of freezing cold and high snowbanks, it is bare and almost spring temperatures.
Linus Soderstrom do not seem to have understood that there was talk about the Swedish goalkeeper problems facing the tournament.
– I have tried not to think about it. The only thing I thought of is to go out and play my game and make it as good as I can, ‘he replied after training.
After two games, Rikard Grönborg suddenly a pronounced förste- goalkeeper who has impressed.
Not bad for a team that conceded 15 goals in two friendlies and had to borrow a Canadian junior to have someone to put on the bench.
The somewhat taciturn Stockholm resident is not here to deliver quote or talk in the headings.
He’s here to stop pucks. The way he answers questions is as systematic as his goalkeeper games:
– I did not know what I would expect for the tournament. It was just to go out in training camp and run as hard as I could and see how far it was enough.
Now waiting for the tournament so far
First Russia, then Switzerland.
The two teams met yesterday and Russia settled the game already in the first period.
Nothing flashy law – but tactically
Russia is good, yet the feeling is good for the night thriller.
This edition of the Junior crowns are not the flashigast or fanciest team to see. Czech Republic, Schwiz and even Denmark lace players on the same level.
But Sweden has a smoothness for sixty minutes and a tactical basis imagine that the law is not around.
Minimum level have been high enough during the matches and the weak periods, as always happens, has been short enough.
One World Championship is about winning matches and to find a performance curve that is raised during the tournament. Firstly, Sweden has done, and the feeling is there is more to pick out Richard Green’s squad.
Something that would be necessary.
Russia is quite different from the Czech Republic and Denmark.
Important to stay in Toronto
Yesterday, I tried to explain how important it is for Sweden to win the group to get remain in Toronto and also get to meet one of the paper easier opponents. A few hours later won the Slovak Republic of Finland and suddenly everything is not so clear anymore.
Actually, nothing new, nothing is certain in a JVM tournament and eventually should also i learn it.
But to remain in the Toronto feels like a reason good as any to highlight the team’s victory as particularly important.
Then learn the required victory in the night’s team finals.
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