Categories: Hockey Predictions

Sweden – Canada (PREDICTION 06.01.2018)

After a fantastic performance in the semi-finals, the Swedish Junior Country team is now in yet another JVM final. This time, Canada stands for the resistance and Sweden finds little surprise in the role of underdog.
Semifinal win against the United States, in which Sweden first took the lead with 4-0 overall after fantastic play in boxplay, make sure that the Swedes come to the finals full of self-confidence. On the other hand, this tournament’s most difficult opposition so far and if we are going to be completely realistic, it will be a lot for the juniors to win here. Then the same lethal efficiency as the United States applies, first and foremost.
Until the finals, Sweden has mixed high with low, but what matters for a nice bet also in the final is that the team has so far saved the best. The match against the United States was undoubtedly the best achievement so far and maybe it’s a fingernail of what’s in the finals now? Or has Sweden already taken its absolute top effort? These are the questions to be answered at 2:00 pm night to Saturday Swedish time when the final is played.

Canada is difficult to handle
As many times before, Canada has been playing the entire tournament in the role of favorite and from the very first run down, it’s really just about how the team will get to the finals, because they also faced a significantly easier journey in the playoffs based on group division. 8-2 against Switzerland in the quarterfinals and 7-2 against the Czech Republic in the semifinal testify that there is no pardon in this Canadian team.
Looking over the entire tournament, including the group game, it is clear that there is extreme offensive force at this time. It makes Canada virtually never have trouble with the worse law, but drive over them properly from the very first moment. Sweden is obviously a major challenge, and for Swedish part it is important to see how the United States managed to disturb the team in the group play. There was an American gain in extension.
On the other hand, we are many people with a horror of the Canadian 5-2 victory over Sweden last year and, in honesty, we are quite pessimistic about this final.