That’s not a surprising result. Great experience, just hope it doesn’t impact some players negatively. Sometimes when your top of your home league going into a competition like this can cause people to lose confidence in themselves, a reality check that your not as good as your fans believe you to be. Professional sports people aren’t always as tough mentally as people believe, particularly when their outclassed to the extent they were tonight. There is no second, third place in the mindset of pro’s, it’s only winners & losers, nobody wants to lose that badly.
We had players missing, so too had Frolunda, missing two top guys with recently picked up injuries. The SHL regularly send young talent to the NHL and attract top players dropping down, how anybody thought we could compete, is taking hope a little far, if a little far was miles away.