As a seven-year-old kid, Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Anton Stralman can remember sitting in his home, eyes glued to the TV watching the ice hockey final of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, between Sweden and Canada.
Sweden trailed 2-1 with less than two minutes to go when Magnus Svensson gave his team new life, his shot from the point deflecting off a skate and into the net to tie the game and send it to overtime.
After a scoreless extra frame, the game moved to a shootout, where Peter Forsberg converted in Round Seven and Tommy Salo saved Paul Kariya’s last-chance shot for Canada to give Sweden its first-ever Gold Medal in the Olympics.