A day after Swedish head coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson suggested that his team might throw their game against Slovakia, claiming he was "still debating what would be best for the team," those same Swedes were shut out 3-0 by the Group B leaders. The idea was to play the club from Switzerland in the quarter-finals, which according to Gustafsson, "on paper, is the weakest team...I stand behind that. That's a fact."

The players showed up to play, and forward Daniel Sedin got angry with reporters when asked about the coach's comments, but it bears mentioning that backup goaltender Mikael Tellqvist got the start, stopping 28 of 31 shots on goal.

There are no official rules against intentionally tanking a game, but this doesn't look good on the Olympics, on Swedish hockey, or on hockey in general. Either Gustafsson was out of his head when he made those comments, or he's just dumb; whatever the reason, it is sure to enrage everyone involved, and I wouldn't look for him to be coaching the Swedes in 2010.

Sweden and Switzerland face off in the first quarterfinal game at 10:30am ET. It wouldn't be the Swiss' first upset...