Road to Beijing 2022 Poll #20 | Who will win Men's Ice Hockey tournament in Beijing 2022?

[rafalgorka 1,517]

Poll #20

[hckošice 14,822]

Slovakia

 

 

in my sweetest dreams

 

 

Finland

 

in real life ahead of ROC (Silver) and Canada likely (or anyone of Sweden/Germany less likely) for bronze

[hckošice 14,822]

Also since it is for fun, lets go with my pre-tournament predictions

 

Will be interesting and challenging to see after the Games how much accurate (or how much wrong I was)

 

so either my maintaining the self claimed interuniversal Guru status or my total embarssement and humiliation

 

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China actually may be the biggest mistery here, I can see them shock an unprepared opponent and finish higher, but in other hand considering their 14 matches loses streak in the KHL I still think they will have problems to earn any point in the group at the end and should be classified ahead of Latvia just by virtue of better goal average, SVK and LAT will have tough life in the group with SWE and especially FIN offensive power

 

So ok, here is the deal. we will see in some 3 weeks lol

[Dunadan 1,103]

China hands down, all those Westerners and Northeners will be swept away.

[Belle 975]

ROC- Finland in the final. Picked ROC as the winner. 

[phelps 7,670]

my heart is, as always, with Slovakia and Switzerland (for different reason, of course)...

 

by my pick is  Sweden

 

my full top 8 prediction (btw, I'm really famous for missing badly all of my predictions...so, don't get mad if I didn't pick your team...and start touching wood if you're a Swedish fan )...

 

Gold:  SWE

Silver:  FIN

Bronze:  SUI

 

4.  CZE

 

out in QTFs

 

-  CAN

-  USA

-  SVK

- ROC

 

[Topicmaster1010 4,174]

This poll makes me so sad .  I had been looking forward to seeing our star players play in the Olympics for years before the NHL announced they wouldn't be going because og covid concerns.

 

So in that case, Russia and Finland are now the two clear favourites. I voted Finland just because I felt everyone was going to vote Russia and I wanted to give them some love because I definitely think they have what it takes to win gold.

[Monzanator 4,499]

With no NHL players this feels like gold to lose. probably the biggest threat indeed.

[hckošice 14,822]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

out in QTFs

 

-  CAN

-  USA

-  SVK

- ROC

A quarterfinal would be definitely valuated here as a success not sure how would feel the other three

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

A quarterfinal would be definitely valuated here as a success not sure how would feel the other three

 

It's possible, beat Latvia in the group stage and then beat the loser between Czech Republic/Switzerland (better case scenario, but less likely you would have to defeat Denmark or Latvia again).