From time to time, TheIHLC.com will feature detailed recaps and boxscores of some of the most legendary games in international hockey history, considered to be “IHLC Classics.”ย Today, in honour of Slovakia’s Constitution Day, we look back at a Slovak Olympic victory, one of the most controversial games in recent memory, which speculation of Sweden “throwing” the match still rampant to this day.
๐ธ๐ฐ Slovakia 3-0 Sweden ๐ธ๐ช
Olympic Preliminary Round
Torino Esposizioni,ย Turin ๐ฎ๐น
Tuesday, 21 February 2006
Behind the closed door of the locker room at Torino Esposizioni, Bengt-ร
ke Gustafsson, coach of the Swedish hockey team, gathered his players Tuesday and delivered his pregame address. He told them to try to beat Slovakia, defenceman Nicklas Lidstrรถm said.
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