Sidney Crosby is still Canada's captain nine years after he last represented his country in international competition.
If there was any doubt about whether the players at the 4 Nations Face-Off would be competing hard, it was immediately erased by the first hit of the game.
The three biggest stars in Canadian hockey made it look easy. McDavid, quarterbacking from the right half-boards, sent the puck down to Crosby and he made a ridiculous spinning backhand pass under a sliding Mathias Ekholm to MacKinnon for a wide-open net. Crosby helped restore the two-goal lead before the end of the middle frame, however, attacking against the flow of play. One-time Canucks prospect Gustav Forsling contained a Crosby rush but he simply found the trailer, Mark Stone, for the 3-1 goal.
It was some incredible lateral movement by Gustavsson, as he came across to his left on a cross-seam pass from Mitch Marner to McDavid, then halted his momentum on the one-touch pass to Toews, stretching out his blocker to rob the Canadian defenceman. Pettersson defended hard but lacked offensive spark From a Canucks perspective, it was a quiet night for Elias Pettersson, as it was for most of the Swedish lineup in the tightly contested game. As exciting as the game was, both teams played some defensively sound hockey and the shots in regulation finished 22-to-20 in favour of Sweden — by definition, a low-event game.
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