Losing in the gold medal game is hard to do. For Sweden’s Erik Karlsson, he might be taking things a bit too much to heart.
Following the 3-0 loss to Canada, via Olympic News Service, Karlsson was asked what the silver medal means to him.
“You will see when I put it out on eBay,” the 23-year-old defenseman said.
Before you go breaking your browsers hitting refresh to look for an Olympic silver medal from Sochi, Karlsson was probably having some fun with reporters. He followed that by being a bit more serious.
“It’s obviously something that will be great to look back on and be proud of, but it will take some time before I will be able to reflect on what it means,” Karlsson said.
At Karlsson’s age, he’ll likely get another chance to win gold at the Olympics whether NHL players go in 2018 or not. Let’s not begrudge a guy for being disappointed at not winning the biggest game of his life.
Still... It might not hurt to set your Google alerts just in case a silver medal goes up for bids.