Ekman Larsson: We did very well today – Today’s News

     
     
     
     
     
 
 
     
 

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         Olvier Ekman Larsson putting the decisive penalty behind Salak in the Czech goal.
     

     
 

 
     

     
     
     
     

         

                     

Prague. The management, loss management, acknowledgment and punishment victory. It was satisfied Swedes got off the ice in the O2 Arena after an oscillation World Cup opening and victory with 6-5 against the Czech Republic.

 

– We did very well today. But there’s also a lot that can be improved, summed punishment hero Oliver Ekman-Larsson on målrika premiere.

                     
                 

         
 
         
         

             
                 
                 
                 

                     

 

management, loss management, acknowledgment and punishment victory. It was satisfied Swedes got off the ice in the O2 Arena after an oscillation World Cup opening and victory with 6-5 against the Czech Republic.

 

– We did very well today. But there’s also a lot that can be improved, summed punishment hero Oliver Ekman-Larsson on målrika premiere.

Elias Lindholm put first penalty. Jacob Josefson missed the second before Oliver Ekman-Larsson stepped in and decided. Jhonas Enroth also rescued Jakub Voraceks shot.

– I was shooting low on the coup, but changed my mind at the last moment and it was all very well, ‘said Oliver Ekman-Larsson of the deciding goal.

 
        
             

     
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The match then?

– Yes, it had many faces. We got some penalties on us as they took advantage of, even though we know they are dangerous there. Since we were perhaps a bit hot at times in our press.

The players were put on the list if they wanted to beat the shootout.

– We call them to do it in the nation service. It does not work if I tell them to beat a penalty. There must be a temptation to go out and take situation, says coach Pär Mårts on the penalty shooters picked up.

– There were not many on the list when I signed up myself. I thought that we must after all be three, continued Oliver, who in addition to the target a few times showed off his amazing skating on the offensive outings.

Another icy penalty spot World Cup debutant Elias Lindholm.

– It was bad ice as it came to shooting. There I decided even before. I’ve tested this a few times. Sometimes it goes. Sometimes not. Tested on (Jhonas) Enroth early in the season and then did not. Good to the sitting now, said Elias, who was also talk about his amazing front gig Victor Rask 3-1.

– We whirled up a bit Hjalle (Simon Hjalmarsson) and me. I came off and see that Victor is cocked by her boyfriend. I try to put it on the far and he does it wonderfully and come loose and put it in, says Elias and make it sound really simple.

But he and Victor have played over half of the games in Carolina it together This season, so they are well aware of each other’s movement.

How did it feel to go out and beat the first penalty?

– Mårts asked if I was hungry and that is to always. It was an honor to add it. But nervous, no, I tend to be quite calm, responsible 20-year-old, who now made his World Cup debut.

How did when Mårts when Lindholm signed up as the first from the penalty spot?

– I asked who wanted to be first, he said. Without any other comparison I think of “Foppa” punishment in the Olympics. It is as here, these guys are not thinking about consequences in some way, responsible Mårts, which was “crap satisfied” with two points against the Czechs, as he himself put it.

– It had not been fair with three sticks. This was fair. But they play different now. So this is never a Czech law remained. Because they played like this in Umeå and Timra against us, we were prepared. We also went down a day earlier here to prepare for it.

Yet you ended up in a position where they receive versus a couple of goals and turn the game?

– Yes, but there is an opponent too. This is a young team that makes much one may not do. But things have to learn to be with. Strong of us to come back again.

It was a bit of culture bearers who showed the way and the young people who decided:

– Yes and Mattias Sjögren makes a fabulous match. But right mix between both is the thing, answer Mårts and takes the opportunity to emphasize one of their culture carriers.

Mattias Sjögren’s hidden ice that always does a sterling job and rarely shines in Three crowns. On Friday, he played up to 1-0 and saw that it was called with his 5-5 after a failed shot from Joakim Lindstrom, who was the prefect fit.

Lindstrom also did a great match. A goal and it became clear that he was coming season to play in the KHL champions SKA St. Petersburg. Another one of Mårts culture bearers who can play in the Tre Kronor during the season.

In the end, it was probably still the team captain Staffan Kronwall who summarized this crazy premiere best:

– Would be strange if we do our best match directly. It is working on.