Eleventh World Cup title: Sweden stops Swiss ice hockey high-flyers

Copenhagen (SID) With their tenth win in the tenth game, Sweden's NHL stars stopped the Swiss ice hockey high-flyers and were crowned world champions again. The Tre Kronor beat the outsiders 3-2 (1-1, 1-1, 0-0, 0-0, 1-0) after a penalty shootout in the final of the World Cup in Denmark and won gold for the eleventh time. The Swiss, who sensationally eliminated Finland and Canada, had to be content with silver, as in 2013. Five years ago in Stockholm, the Swedes triumphed 5-1. In Copenhagen, the Scandinavians also repeated the success of the previous year in Cologne, when they defeated Canada 2-1, also after a penalty shootout. Filip Forsberg converted the decisive penalty. "There's a huge emptiness when you're so close," said striker Simon Moser: "We were in the lead twice and didn't get a goal for 40 minutes, if we count extra time. But at the moment the thought isn't there yet that we won silver and didn't lose gold." Record Olympic champion Canada came away empty-handed for the first time in four years. The team led by NHL scorer king Connor McDavid lost 1:4 (0:0, 1:1, 0:3) to the USA in the game for third place and remained without a medal after two gold and one silver. The Americans around their star striker Patrick Kane won bronze for the third time in six years. The Swiss, with five finalists from 2013, started with a lot of self-confidence after their 3-2 coups in the quarter and semi-finals and initially had the better scoring chances. Only after about ten minutes did the favorite get into the game better. Nevertheless, the Swiss, with eight NHL professionals named the "best national team of all time" by Boulevard, managed to take the lead through Nino Niederreiter in front of 12.490 spectators in the sold-out Royal Arena (17th), although Gustav Nyquist equalized almost immediately (18th). . Timo Meier took advantage of a Sweden error in the power play to make it 2-1 (24th). The Tre Kronor responded with furious attacks and built up enormous pressure, goalkeeper Leonardo Genoni came under increasing fire. When Mika Zibanejad equalised, the 30-year-old from SC Bern was powerless (35th). In the final section, the Scandinavians repeatedly established themselves in the Swiss third. But Genoni, who was once again outstanding, drove them to despair with numerous strong saves and helped coach Patrick Fischer's team survive four minutes unscathed when they were outnumbered. The Swiss were lucky in overtime when Adam Larsson hit the post with two seconds left. In the afternoon, Chris Kreider gave the US team, which had lost 0-6 in the semifinals to defending champions Sweden, the lead (26th). Marc-Edouard Vlasic equalized for the Canadians in front of 12.111 visitors (39th). Nick Bonino made the decision in the power play (54th) - on a pass from Kane, who extended his lead in the World Cup scoring list with 20 points. When Canada put everything on one card and took goalkeeper Curtis McElhinney off the ice in favor of a sixth skater, Anders Lee (58th) and Kreider (59th) increased the lead to 4-1.

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Eleventh World Cup title: Sweden stops Swiss ice hockey high-flyers

With their tenth win in the tenth game, Sweden's NHL stars stopped the Swiss ice hockey high-flyers and were crowned world champions again.

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