Olympic Hockey Gold Medal

[jlb1705]

Sweden beat Finland 2-0 which clinched the #1 seed for the US. They will play the winner of Switzerland/Belarus on Wednesday.

The Canadians play Germany tomorrow and if (when) they win they will play Russia on Wednesday. The US and Canada are on opposite sides of the bracket so if they meet up again it will be in either the gold or bronze medal game.

Couldn't have asked for a better draw.

 

[OH10]

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

1. United States
2. Sweden
3. Russia
4. Finland
5. Czech Republic
6. Canada
7. Slovakia
8. Switzerland
9. Belarus
10. Norway
11. Germany
12. Latvia

Next round (Tuesday):
G1: Czech Rep. vs. Latvia
G2: Canada vs. Germany
G3: Slovakia vs. Norway
G4: Switzerland vs. Belarus

Quarter-finals (Wednesday):
Q1. United States vs. Switzerland/Belarus
Q2. Sweden vs. Slovakia/Norway
Q3. Russia vs. Canada/Germany
Q4. Finland vs. Czech Rep./Latvia

Semi-finals (Friday)
Q1 vs. Q4
Q2 vs. Q3

Bronze-medal game (Saturday)
Semi-final losers

Gold-medal game (Sunday)
Semi-final winners

If things fall the right way, we could be looking at a USA-Russia final.

 

[Jaxbuck]

Q3. Russia vs. Canada/Germany

There's no history or bad blood between the Canadians and Russians in hockey right?

 

[cincibuck]

Did I understand this correctly, if the US wins out and Canada does also then there is no Gold/Silver game?

 

[BB73]

Did I understand this correctly, if the US wins out and Canada does also then there is no Gold/Silver game?

If the USA wins twice and Canada wins 3 times (Russia being the middle one), the USA and Canada would play for the Gold. So they could get revenge in a rematch.

 

[Mike80]

Did I understand this correctly, if the US wins out and Canada does also then there is no Gold/Silver game?

who told you that?

 

[cincibuck]

who told you that?

A talking head I was half paying attention to stated something that I interpreted as if the US wins out and Canada wins out there would not be a game for the Gold. Like I said I was only paying half attention.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

There's no history or bad blood between the Canadians and Russians in hockey right?

There's no history of bad blood between the Russians and Germans in everything else, right?

 

[TooTall]

A talking head I was half paying attention to stated something that I interpreted as if the US wins out and Canada wins out there would not be a game for the Gold. Like I said I was only paying half attention.

No, the first game between USA and Canada was strictly for seeding purposes... Now it goes to tournament format, single elimination.

 

[Bucklion]

who told you that?

Was it Bernard Rubble? Did he say he had tickets to every other gold medal game combination?

 

[Tonyank]

I think this vbet shouldnt have started till today......IMO Or maybe another vbet for the actual bracket ??

 

[Bucklion]

Looks like the Swiss and Belarus could be headed to OT...spirited effort by the 12.

 

[Bucklion]

OT it is, Mezin the Maniac, 35 saves...shows you what a tender can do in any given game.

 

[Bucklion]

End of OT, and Belarus isn't going away. Mezin up to 40 saves. Either of these teams looks like they could at least give us something to think about next round.