Bergman’s match penalty felled Sweden – Gothenburg Post

Gold, silver, silver – and a fourth place.

Junior crown medal-rich suite was broken during JVM hockey in Canada.

Slovakia won the bronze match with 4-2.

Not even a day after the semifinal loss against Russia was junior crowns back on the ice at the Air Canada Centre.

This time, it was about the bronze match against Slovakia.

Once again forced the players to leave the stadium as losers, after a match which also broke the national team’s impressive medal suite – gold in 2012 and silver in 2013 and silver in 2014.

Once again, it was after undisciplined game compared to previous matches in the championship.

Not only to Slovak segermål by Pavol Skalicky, was a result of Julius Bergman match penalty late in the second period .

But also because the beginning was anything but good.

39 seconds

As in many parts of the semi-final meeting with Russia had the junior crowns difficult to get to any game. Passing sent off in the dark, the tempo was low and several times the selection was basically non-existent.

There were details that gave a nightmare opening.

Just 2:43 minutes into the match, beating Andreas Englund a mismatch that ended up with David Soltes. Slovakia, the freedom of the castle in front of Linus Soderstrom, turned cold when he received the puck to shortly after placing the shot to the right of the Swedish goalkeeper.

39 seconds later, bang again.

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Reway noticed that the Swedes dropped the mark in its own zone and put a simple diagonal pass to standalone Mislav Rosandic.

Then there was the 19 year old show at the Air Canada Centre.

With a body nicely tricked Rosandic Soderstrom to right himself he slid the other way and added the final set 2-0 goal into an empty cage.

Then the match clock at 3:22.

Swedish acknowledgment

Two goals in the space of one minute did the coach Rikard Grönborg took time out.

After a few well-chosen words, he started his players.

6:16 minutes later he could sing along with them.

Axel Holmstrom and Sebastian Aho offered a pat-pat game in the Slovak zone and served William Nylander open goal to 1-2.

With 3:48 left in the period ordande Jens Lööke, nicely presented, played by Christopher Ehn, the acknowledgment.

But the closer the bronze medal than that never came Junior crowns.

Instead, decided Pavol Skalicky with Slovakia’s 3-2 goal in powerplay after Julius Bergman’s match penalty. With 56 seconds left put Patrik Koys 4-2 Goal empty GOAL.