Canada is so incredibly dangerous off the rush. Sweden had a couple bouts of offensive zone pressure but everything is to the outside and nothing significant when they are entering the zone.
Iginla has an uncanny sense of space in the offensive zone. I've only watched a handful of periods of his play but he gets scoring chances regularly. He's a bit like Brett Hull in finding soft areas of coverage. Really promising. He scored a beauty top shelf goal on a wrister and then made a good play on the 4-0 goal by winning a battle in front for a loose puck and tipping it back to a defenseman jumping in who was able to slide the puck to Ryder Ritchie for a tap in.
The Canada-USA final that looks pretty certain now will be a hell of a matchup. McKenna and Hagens are both looking like future superstars that should be fun to watch play head-to-head.
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