Sweden upping its battle level -- Monten believes his team can produce offense, so he shifted focus at practice Tuesday to goal prevention.
The hour and 15 minutes on the ice were spent mostly on improved play and competitiveness in the defensive zone.
"I think we have to improve our defensive part of the game," Monten said. "That's our main focus. Our feeling is we can play with speed and we can create, but we can't give up as many scoring chances as we have the first two games against these type of teams. We won't be able to beat them in the end."
Sweden split its first two games, defeating USA White 6-3 on Sunday and losing 6-4 to USA Blue on Monday.
"We talked about our defensive-zone play, talked about that and especially the areas around the net and what we can do to try to improve our defensive side of the game," Monten said. "I think we gave up way too many shots, way too many scoring chances the first two games. That's a big area of improvement."
Monten said Filip Gustavsson (Pittsburgh Penguins) will start in goal against the U.S. on Wednesday (4 p.m. ET; NHLN, TSN). Gustavsson did not play Sunday and was the backup to Adam Werner (Colorado Avalanche) Monday.
Finland finding some energy -- Finland coach Jukka Rautakorpi thought his players looked like they had a bit more energy at practice Tuesday. He hopes that carries over into games, starting Wednesday against Canada (1 p.m. ET; NHLN, TSN).
Finland scored the first goal in both its games but was outscored by a total of 16-3. It lost 8-1 to USA Blue on Sunday and 8-2 to USA White on Monday.
"We need more effort," Rautakorpi said. "Like [Monday], whole first period, second period around 10 minutes, we had a good effort and we played together. It was working. Then we got tired."
Rautakorpi said one of the standouts to him has been Kasper Bjorkqvist (Pittsburgh Penguins), who was the captain Monday.
"I think Kasper is a natural leader on the team," Rautakorpi said. "He's a character player. He looks more like a power forward, playing strong in front of the net. … If you ask the whole team he's a good leader."