STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- History of some sort will be made in Sundays final of the IIHF World Championship. Switzerland will play for the first gold medal in that countrys history. Sweden wants to be the first host country to win a world title since 1986. Catch all the action live on TSN2 and TSN Mobile TV at 2pm et/11am pt. The Swiss extended their unbeaten run at this years mens world hockey championship to nine wins with a 3-0 victory over the United States in one semifinal Saturday night. The Swedes downed Finland 3-0 in the afternoon semifinal. "To get this far at the world tournament is pretty special for our country right now," said Swiss coach Sean Simpson, a Canadian from Brampton, Ont. "Its quite a thrill for our team, for our country, to be in the final in Stockholm against Sweden. Its quite a big deal." The Soviet Union was the last country to win a world mens hockey title on home ice 27 years ago in Moscow. "Its about time. Its about time," Swedish forward Henrik Sedin said. "No pressure, just fun. "Its an unbelievable feeling. Its something a lot players never get a chance to be part of so its something you dream about when you grow up." Switzerland opened the tournament with a 3-2 upset of the Swedes, followed by a 3-2 shootout win over Canada and a 5-2 victory over the Czech Republic. The wins over what were considered the favourites in the pool gave the Swiss momentum on their run to the top in Stockholm. Sweden finished third at 5-2 in the same pool behind Canada at (5-1-1-0). The Swedes eliminated Canada from medal contention with a 3-2 shootout quarter-final win. Julian Walker, New York Islanders prospect Nino Niederreiter and Reto Suri, with an empty-net goal, scored for the Swiss against the Americans. Goaltender Reto Berra, a Calgary Flames prospect, stopped 29 shots for the shutout. "I have no words for that," Berra said. "I think its the biggest win since a long, long time for Switzerland and also I think for a lot of players it was the most important game in their life today." Switzerland will earn their first medal in this tournament in 60 years. They won bronze in 1953. Loui Eriksson of the Dallas Stars scored a pair of power-play goals against Finland with twin brothers Henrik and Daniel Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks assisting on both of them. Henrik added an empty-net goal for a three-point game in front of an announced 11,674 at Globe Arena. Jhonas Enroth of the Buffalo Sabres made 30 saves for his shutout. Simpson would not reveal whether he would go with Berra in net again Sunday or return to former NHL goalie Martin Gerber. Gerber was in net for a 2-1 quarter-final win over the Czechs. Enroth has made game-turning saves to get the Swedes to the championship game and is expected to return to Swedens net Sunday. Sweden, whose last world title was in 2006, is a more confident team than the one Switzerland beat on the first day of the tournament. The addition of the Sedins after the Canucks were swept in the first round of NHL playoffs boosted Swedens power-play. After scoring just two power-play goals in their first seven games of the tournament, Sweden has scored four in their last two games. Daniel assisted on all four and Henrik on three. "They know what to do," Swedish forward Gabriel Landeskog said. "Theyve played with each other for so long and they know exactly where to find each other and find Loui. "They have that respect as well. Everyone knows theyre world-class players. As soon as they get the puck, people will back off." Finland and the U.S., who finished first and third in the Helsinki pool, will play for bronze Sunday. When asked if winning a world title would erase the sting of an early NHL playoff exit, Henrik replied: "Its two different things. To lose in the playoffs, its obviously tough. To get a chance to do something good, its fun." Simpson has coached the Swiss mens team internationally for three years with finishes of fifth, ninth and 11th at the mens world championship during his tenure. He took over as head coach in 2010 for Ralph Krueger, another Canadian who had been behind Switzerlands bench for 13 years. Krueger is now the head coach of the NHLs Edmonton Oilers. Canucks defenceman Alex Edler joined Swedens lineup with the Sedins, but he did not play Saturday, nor will he Sunday. Edler received a two-game suspension for his knee-on-knee contact with Canadian captain Eric Staal in Thursdays quarter-final. Edler received a major and a game misconduct. Staal is also captain of the Carolina Hurricanes. The NHL team announced Saturday hed suffered a third degree ligament sprain, which would not require surgery. The team said rehabilitation should take three months and that Staal is expected to be ready for the start of the 2013-14 season.
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Somehow always comfortably familiar.And if it is no longer difficult to imagine what the national team will be on the field without her, it will be forever difficult to picture the events of the past decade and a half unfolding sans scowl.Except that, when you get right down to it, labeling hers a scowl seems barely sufficient.University of North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance -- the architect of the most prolific dynasty in college sports who watched so many former Tar Heels first debut for and eventually retire from the U.S. womens national team -- offered a better appraisal.What sort of made her fierce was this angry chicken face that she had when she competed, Dorrance said.Beyond the field, though, there was a smile with a hint of native New Jersey wryness.Theres no arrogance to her, Dorrance continued. She would not call a team that defeated her a collection of cowards. There are so many things about her that are genuinely good and nice. Shes just a very old-school athlete that loves her family, loves her teams and her coaches, and isnt this incredibly irritating social media presence. Its almost like she is from a different era.Mind you, irritating or not, she does have a social media presence. OReillys combined Twitter and Instagram followings are more than half a million strong. She is of this time. But the coachs point is taken. It never has been easy to pin down the era to which she belongs. Perhaps it is her own.OReilly will retire from international competition after Thursdays match against Thailand (ESPN2, 8 p.m. ET) having played more games for the United States than all but six women. At 31, she is 2? years younger than one U.S. captain, Carli Lloyd, and only six months older than the other, Becky Sauerbrunn. And while OReilly was an Olympic alternate this summer in Brazil, she still plays with the skill of someone who has a lot of soccer left in her story.Dorrance said he turned on an NWSL game last week just in time to see OReilly, of FC Kansas City, carve Chicago Red Stars defender Julie Johnston, a U.S. teammate and rising star, and deliver a cross that Kansas Citys Shea Groom finished for the opening goal in a K.C. win.In other words, the kind of play OReilly has been making ever since she made her international debut against Sweden on March 1, 2002 -- three days before Grooms ninth birthday.But with last years World Cup championship medal sitting alongside three Olympic gold medals, and with three long years until the next major tournament -- not to mention the national teams undisguised youth movement, to which OReilly fell victim this year -- she makes her exit.As much as I would like to play in the national team until Im 80 years old, thats just not realistic, OReilly said. There are other amazing things Im looking forward to as well. Im genuine about this -- Im looking forward to being a fan and being behind this team forever and ever because its part of me and always will be.And she is a part of it. Not just because of 52 assists. Not just because of 46 goals, including a memorable winner in overtime of an Olympic semifinal against Germany in 2004.dddddddddddd Not merely for the gold medal that followed or any of the other medals added later. She played her first game alongside Joy Fawcett, Julie Foudy and Kristine Lilly, all of whom played in the first World Cup in 1991. She will play her final game alongside some combination of Morgan Brian, Lindsey Horan and Mallory Pugh, some of whom might still be playing when the 2031 World Cup rolls around.That is a whole lot of history connected through one person.Most of OReillys career took place in that most difficult of historical settings, when the glow of something momentous -- in this case, the national teams culture-changing success in the 1996 Olympics and 1999 World Cup -- gives way to the arduous task of making a new reality stick. That is why it matters when she says she feels that she leaves the national team in better shape than she found it.I think being a professional soccer player is the coolest gig in the world; I love playing, OReilly said. I think sometimes when you look at our male counterparts and what they are able to do in a domestic league and certain international players, we certainly have a ways to go. So yeah, thats frustrating. And Im proud to be part of certain initiatives to level that playing field because were not there yet. Hopefully I will continue to be a positive person in that charge to make things more equal, in terms of conditions, in terms of pay, in terms of visibility of the sport.Although she has been one of the most thoughtful speakers on rosters that rarely lacked candidates in that category, OReilly isnt the first name that comes to mind when it comes to using the platform. That is our fault, not hers. We digest and discuss Megan Rapinoe kneeling during the national anthem because it is, by intent, visible and provocative. We hung on Abby Wambachs every spoken thought for the same reason.How many fewer words, as absent here as anywhere, have been devoted to the work OReilly quietly does with America Scores, among others? The nonprofit organization works with children in 13 major cities who almost exclusively live below the poverty line. Through soccer, but also community service and even poetry, it attempts to provide opportunities that might not otherwise exist in a sport still very white, suburban and expensive.I think that soccer is a powerful game, said OReilly, who graduated from North Carolina with a degree in education. Its changed my life, and I know that it has the power to change the lives of a lot of people. And I dont know if everybody across our country is getting the same access to this amazing game.She was among those heard on the subject of artificial surfaces in the most recent World Cup. She believes in the ongoing fight for wage equality. But her career is also a study in the idea that it is not always the loudest and the brashest who make the biggest difference.For 15 years and more than 200 appearances, she didnt try to be anything but herself. The angry chicken face is just the photographic proof.At first I was sort of embarrassed by when Id see pictures, OReilly said. Over the years Ive just embraced it because its who I am. I play with passion. I live with passion. Im proud of that. I feel like thats what made me successful in my career. And I dont know another way.
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