I am sure some fans out there are sick on our "self love" right now. But I got to add one more dimension;
We won gold in the Olympics and we won the WCH. And in both of thoose tournaments we where by far the most offensiveminded team. That will, no doubt, affect other countrys to play a more offensive minded style. Had a trapping team won instead we in Sweden and other countrys would have looked that way. Nations always takes after each other.
Canada too gave a chance to allot of players who never would have been options before, like Trevor Daley, like Robidas, like Callamarerri.
This is the first year with the new rules. International hockey differs allot from the NHL, but when the most offensiveminded team wins it will send some chockways to other nations. Hopefully this is a start of a era where not every player shorter then 6´ are shut out from the game. And for thoose of you worried about hitting, I can only speak for myself but a player 6´0 hitting another player 6´0 is as entertaining, or even more entretaining, then two guys 6´4 lumbering up to each other to make a hit.