When Sweden and Finland crossed at full time on Sunday - Finland won by extra time - it meant that Canada could no longer be top two and go straight to the quarterfinals.

Last year's World Cup winner must now play the round of 16 on Tuesday, the night before the quarterfinals, but against the tournament's worst team, China.

They met in the group stage and Canada won 5-0.

Peeling can of course occur - but no one believes anything other than that it will be Canada that Sweden will face on Wednesday.

- It's perfect, says Dennis Everberg.

Why?

- Because it's Canada and it sounds good.

I would rather take them than Switzerland or the Czech Republic, he says about the alternatives that would have been if Sweden had not lost the Finland match after a 3-0 lead.

"It'll be fun"

It also means a meeting with the chain mate from Rögle, Adam Tambellini who scored one of the goals in the last match.

- It will be fun, I have borrowed some equipment from him, says Everberg and tells that he borrowed the plows for the skates from the Canadian.

Dennis Everberg is one of four players in the Olympic team that participated in and won the World Cup final over Canada in Cologne 2017. The other three are Philip Holm, Joakim Nordström and Marcus Krüger.

- Yes, but it was a completely different team then.

It's irrelevant.

It's a new match.

Then who is tipped to be the best, it's the same thing, he says about those who see Canada as a nightmare opponent.

Voluntary training on Monday

Tre Kronor had voluntary training on Monday and only a few players were on ice.

The team has also gone through what happened when Finland turned around.

- We have analyzed a bit and moved on.

We make a very good match and then it is small things that make us concede goals after two unnecessary expulsions, he says.

Rögle's strong forward, 193 centimeters tall and 95 kilos heavy, came to Beijing later than the others and is starting to feel inside the tournament.

Everberg recently had covid-19 and the team management did not want to risk that he would have residues of the virus in his body and therefore test positive.

China has lower limit values ​​than at home.

After being carefully matched in the first two matches, he had almost 20 minutes of playing time against Finland.

- Yesterday it felt good, it has been a bit of getting into it.

It will be a little different with the little rink, he says.