🇸🇪 Sweden 5-3 Canada 🇨🇦
World Championship Final Round
Broadmoor World Arena, Colorado Springs 🇺🇸
Tuesday, 13 March 1962
There are sports events which reach mythological proportions over time for reasons which are somewhat difficult for a worldwide audience to fully appreciate. And there is no question that Sweden’s Gold medal victory at the 1962 World Championship in Colorado Springs would probably not have been perceived as such a huge achievement by Swedish fans had not the win for ever been linked with a play-by-play radio commentary by legendary announcer Lennart Hyland.
Tell the words “Den glider i màl” (“It slides into the net“) to a Swede and he will immediately refer to Hyland’s commentary of forward Nisse Nilsson’s empty-net goal that sealed Sweden’s 5-3 win over heavy favourite Canada at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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