This is interesting Well  years later we are no closer to an answer but this is from the article Peter Forsberg As part of a subsequent interview about the championship over five years later Forsberg was interpreted to insinuate that Sweden lost their preliminary round game against Slovakia on purpose so as to draw Switzerland as their quarterfinal opponent rather than Canada or Russia Swedish forward Henrik Sedin who played alongside Forsberg on the  team denied the notion while adding that Forsbergs comments in the interview were misconstrued