Sweden retain trophy beating Swiss in tiebreaker

Sweden retained their championship beating Switzerland in the final of the Ice Hockey World Championship 2018 in tiebreaker in Copenhagen late Sunday night.

The Swisses, who were leading every time by scoring first during the match including in the tiebreaker, failed to fulfill the gold dream after the 2-1 defeat in shootout.

The trophy was settled down by shootout as the match was 2-2 draw during the fixed 60 minutes and additional 20 minutes.

The Switzerland players, who already showed their performance in the tournament by beating fovourite Finland and Canada in the quarterfinals and semi-finals respectively, also started the final match through scoring first at the first period when Nino Niederreiter made the goal and took 1-0 lead at the 16:38 minutes.

Gustav Nyquist of Sweden, however, equalized the score just within a span of one and a half minutes.

Timo Meier of Switzerland made the second goal for the team and took the 2-1 lead at the second period at 23:13 minutes but Mika Zibanejad of Sweden equalized the score again at 34:53 minutes of the second period.

Although both the teams tried seriously and got several opportunities in the third period and extra time of 20 minutes, none could succeed to score any more goal resulting the tiebreaker.

Although Sven Andrighetto started the shootout with scoring goal for Switzerland, none of the rest four could succeed to make any goal while Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Filip Forsberg scored one goal each in the shootout for Sweden resulting the gold for the team.

With this, Sweden won the Ice Hockey World Championship for 11 times while the Switzerland won silver this time and in 2013 in the modern age. Prior to that they won silver in 1935 and bronze in 1930, 1937, 1939, 1950, 1951, and 1953.

They also lost to Sweden in the final of Ice Hockey world Championship in 2013.

Earlier, in another match the USA beat Canada by 4 goals to 1 to win bronze in the tournament.