Official 2010 Olympic Hockey Thread

[InvincibleCakeEater]

Team Russia is sick

Russia is probably the second best team. It will be an upset if Canada loses a game.

Really? I'm not a huge hockey guy. I follow it, just not closely.

[longhornbaseball]

Team Russia is sick

Russia is probably the second best team. It will be an upset if Canada loses a game.

Really? I'm not a huge hockey guy. I follow it, just not closely.

There's only 8 Russians who would make Team Canada, IMO. Probably 3 Americans...

The Swedes have a good team as well and they won the gold in 2006.

[lukethedrifter]

Team Russia is sick

Russia is probably the second best team. It will be an upset if Canada loses a game.

Really? I'm not a huge hockey guy. I follow it, just not closely.

There's only 8 Russians who would make Team Canada, IMO. Probably 3 Americans...

Yeah but... how many Canadians would make Team Russia? Ever think of that?

[longhornbaseball]

Team Russia is sick

Russia is probably the second best team. It will be an upset if Canada loses a game.

Really? I'm not a huge hockey guy. I follow it, just not closely.

There's only 8 Russians who would make Team Canada, IMO. Probably 3 Americans...

Yeah but... how many Canadians would make Team Russia? Ever think of that?

There are only 8 Russians in the world who are worthy of being called as good or better than the best Canadians and there are 23 roster spots so I would say there are 15 Canadians who would make team Russia.

[lukethedrifter]

Team Russia is sick

Russia is probably the second best team. It will be an upset if Canada loses a game.

Really? I'm not a huge hockey guy. I follow it, just not closely.

There's only 8 Russians who would make Team Canada, IMO. Probably 3 Americans...

Yeah but... how many Canadians would make Team Russia? Ever think of that?

There are only 8 Russians in the world who are worthy of being called as good or better than the best Canadians and there are 23 roster spots so I would say there are 15 Canadians who would make team Russia.

I was making a very dumb math joke.

[TimeForGuinness]

Federov? Jagr?

Forsberg?

[Popeye_Card]

Russsia should be able to score at will, but IMO the D doesn't look as good as the US, Canada, or Sweden.

Canada has the best team on paper, and will be playing at home. You have to give them the edge.

I could have sworn Chara is a Czech. Am I wrong or is he not playing?

This should be awesome. I'm going to wager Canada takes the gold, Sweden silver, Russia bronze, US 4th.

[longhornbaseball]

I could have sworn Chara is a Czech. Am I wrong or is he not playing?

Slovak. I didn't have time to post them yesterday. They should have a good team with Gaborik and Hossa.

Team Slovakia

Peter Budaj
Jaroslav Halák
Rastislav Staňa
Zdeno Chára
Milan Jurčina
Richard Lintner
Andrej Meszároš
Andrej Sekera
Martin Štrbák
Ľubomír Višňovský
Ľuboš Bartečko
Martin Cibák
Pavol Demitra
Marián Gáborík
Michal Handzuš
Marián Hossa
Marcel Hossa
Tomáš Kopecký
Žigmund Pálffy
Branko Radivojevič
Miroslav Šatan
Jozef Stümpel
Richard Zedník

[longhornbaseball]

This should be awesome. I'm going to wager Canada takes the gold, Sweden silver, Russia bronze, US 4th.

I think Team USA is very mediocre. I'd rank them:
Canada
Sweden
Russia

Slovakia
USA
Finland
Czech Republic

Cupcakes (Belarus, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Switzerland)

[Sutter'sBeard]

We might have the best goaltending but that's about it. Hope for 2-1 victories.