Kimmo Rintanen and Selanne with his second chased Swedish goalie Tommy Salo to the bench as the Finns led 5-1 seven minutes into the middle period. They where on their way to the most emphatic win ever over their arch-rivals.  But with backup goalie Mikael Tellqvist between the pipes things started to change for Tre Kronor. Only 80 seconds after the substitution, Jorgen Jonsson made it 5-2, but he and his teammates barely acknowledged the score, realising full well the Finns were very much in control still.

But midway through the game came the momentum titled heavily in Sweden’s favour, and once it swung there was no way back. Peter Forsberg cut the lead to two at 9:27 and Sweden all but silenced the crowd after Jonas Hoglund’s goal made it 5-4 with two and half minutes still left in the period. The Finns could physically regroup during the second intermission, but mentally they had already lost.

Peter Forsberg scored the goal that was the killer. He took the puck in his zone, charged into Finnish territory, went around the net and scored with a wraparound shot, jamming the puck past sprawling defenceman Janne Niinimaa and goalie Pasi Nurminen. That tied the game, 5-5, and it was just a matter of time before the comeback was perfect. With less than five minutes to go in regulation time, Per-Johan Axelsson’s deflection off a Sundin shot went past Nurminen. Sweden had regained the lead.

The shocked Finnish crowd had just witnessed what was both the biggest collapse of their national team and the biggest comeback effort in the history of top-level international hockey. Only by listening to Swedish radio reporter Lasse Granqvist’s hysterical play-by-play could one understand the importance of this game for Sweden and its fans. This truly incredible come-from-behind victory would have been placed higher on this list had the win propelled Tre Kronor to the gold medal. But after easily disposing of the Slovaks in the semi-final by a 4-1 score, Sweden lost to Canada in the final that became yet another unforgettable hockey classic, further up on the Top 100 list.