Originally Posted by CDSmith

He was going for the puck, not the goaltender. Sorry, you lose.

I have looked at the situation 20 times now and I can clearly say he absolutly could have avoided sticking his leg out like that, in my eye's It's clearly on purpose.

To say they did is either the crying of a whiner, or of someone who just doesn't know hockey enough to know the difference between tough play and dirty play. Which one are you?

They practically ran over our goaltender 4 times, that is dirty play to me. How ever it was not those things that made Sweden lose.

Agreed, Sweden's penalty kill wasn't very effective this game, and neither was their power play.

The PP was worst.

See you in Saskatoon, as they say.

I have no doubt the Swedes will continue to be serious contenders, they only seem to get better and better. But to imply that Canada played dirty just isn't right. Our mandate has never been to play the game that way. There are exceptions of course, but there are exceptions in every country's teams, certain individuals who give a little more punishment than they should, lose their cool easier, etc.

If anything Canada's hockey teams seem to push the players of other countries to become better, in order to some day... beat us.