On Thursday, Tre Kronor lost a 3-0 lead in the World Cup quarter-final against Canada and fell by 3-4 after extra time.

Early this morning, the team jumped on the bus outside the player hotel in Tampere.

At 09 o'clock today, Swedish time, they fly home.

Team captain and NHL star Oliver Ekman-Larsson describes the evening that followed the match:

- You try to spend as much time as possible together.

Like I said yesterday, we had a great group here who had great fun together.

You must not forget that.

What do you say as captain to the boys?

- You mostly walk around and hug each other and thank everyone for these weeks.

"Well fought" and all that.

At the same time, it is a very big disappointment in everyone's heads and bodies.

It is not so easy in such situations.

"Sport is brutal"

For Johan Garpenlöv, yesterday's World Cup quarter-final was his last match as Swedish national team captain.

The last night with the gang.

What did you tell the guys?

- We talked for a while after the match about the tournament itself, where we are of course disappointed.

At the same time, we do not lose a match in regular time and we win six out of eight.

But the sport is brutal, it's about winning the right matches and we did not do it this time.

When your time as national team captain is summed up, many put a stamp of failure.

How does it feel?

- What people think and think and put into words in my time, everyone can do that, I do not care.

I know it has not been good in terms of results.

Point.

Then we have done a lot of other things this time that you as a coach take with you.

We have won matches and done good things, but in the end it is about getting something around our necks, preferably a gold medal, and we have not got that.

Garpenlöv says that he will now go home to the family.

Then he must return the computer and car "and other things that belong to the union".

After that, summer vacation awaits.

- It feels heavy now, especially in the way I submit.

I wish we played the medals again this weekend.

This will be heavy for a few weeks to come.

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