Not exactly the medal the Canadians of Swedes want to play for. Canada fell 4-2 to the Swedes in the Bronze medal game. Thats 5 straight Bronze medal game loses for Canada. The last time they won a bronze medal game at the World Championships was in 1995.
Los Angeles King Carl Gundstrom opens up the scoring for Sweden at 12:05 of the first period with the assists on the goal going to Linus Johansson and Rasmus Dahlin.
Shots on goal in the first period were 7-4 for Sweden
Dylan Cozens then ties the game up at 2:41 of the second period with the assists on the goal going to Jamie Oleksiak and Andrew Mangipane. Cozens was by far (and it wasn’t even close) the best player on Canada at the tournament.
Shots on goal in the second period were 10-9 for Canada.
Pierre Luc Dubois gave Canada the lead at 4:15 of the third period from Brandon Hagel and John Tavares.
Erik Karlsson then ties the game up for the Swedes at 9:35 of the third period from Andre Burakovsky and Marcus Johansson.
From a terrible angle on a terrible shot Carl Gundstrom scored and gave the Swedes a 3-2 lead at 13:42.
Canada then pulled there goalie and made it really exciting in the last minute and a half. They had a few chances but couldn’t bury one and then Sweden went down and Marcus Johansson scored on the empty net to secure their bronze medal.
Shots on goal in the third period were 17-8 for Sweden. The Swedes outshot the Canadians 33-22 in the game.
Filip Gustavsson made 20 saves on the 22 shots that he faced for the win for the Swedes. For Canada Jordan Binnington made 29 saves on the 32 shots that he faced.
Player of the game for Sweden was Carl Gundstrom. The player of the game for Canada was Jamie Oleksiak.
