It’s been a little over a week since we last looked at how the Wild system fared at this year’s IIHF World Championships, and despite Joel Eriksson Ek and Jonas Brodin not improving on their offensive output since then, fans can take some pride in knowing that the Swedish contingent of the Hockey Wilderness added some hardware to the ol’ trophy case: two gold medals. The deeper stats, however, leave a little to be desired.
Personally, I think (and a not unpopular view) breakaways are a poor determiner of who should take home a gold medal, though Team USA was on the fortuitous end of it at this year’s WJCs.