The Swedish national team won the bronze medals at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championship held in Edmonton, Canada.
In the bronze medal match, the Swedes defeated the Czech Republic with a score of 3:1.
Finland and Canada will face each other in the final match of the tournament, which will start at 3:00 Moscow time.
In the semi-finals, the Finns beat the Swedish team (1:0), the Canadians the Czechs (5:2).
Recall that the Russian team missed the 2022 Ice Hockey World Championship, which was held in Finland. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has decided to exclude Russian hockey players from participation in international tournaments, albeit with neutral status, and in 2023 received the right to host the host junior world championship from Russia.
Formerly three-time Olympic champion Vitaly Davydov shared his opinion About the level of play in the Continental Hockey League (KHL).
“We laughed at the Canadians in Soviet hockey – they did not value the puck, they played hit-and-run. I think the opposite is true in the world today. Canadians are already laughing at us. Look at the NHL and KHL, compare – we do not value the disc, we hit the target and dig there. I call it field hockey,” Davydov said.