Men's Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[hckošice 16,623]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Are they that good compared to even Canada? 

 

This is a brutal terrifying offensive power they have in their roster in comparison to any other announced team rosters a real nuclear bomb if you want

 

Monsters, I say you sir, Monsters !!!

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9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Are they that good compared to even Canada? 

Ohhh yes they are. Let's say this time Russia is Real Madrid, Canada PSV. 

[heywoodu 16,465]

1 minute ago, NikolaB said:

Ohhh yes they are. Let's say this time Russia is Real Madrid, Canada PSV. 

Real Madrid got beaten by Leganes yesterday, so they're not that good? 

 

Kidding of course, thanks, this comparison makes it pretty clear what to expect  

Edited January 25, 2018 by heywoodu

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Yeah, it would be a real choke if Russia didn't win.

 

Of course it's a best of 1 so anything can happen

[heywoodu 16,465]

And thanks, bookmakers still have odds of 2+ (even 2.75) for Russia/OAR to win the gold 

 

Now I am very well aware nobody ever has 100% chance to win anything, but that does sound good  

Edited January 25, 2018 by heywoodu

[phelps 8,723]

3 hours ago, hckosice said:

OLYMPIC ATHLETES FROM RUSSIA

 

 

Goaltenders:

• Vasili Koshechkin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk, KHL, )
• Ilya Sorokin (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Igor Shestyorkin (CSKA Moscow, KHL, )

Defencers:

• Vladislav Gavrikov (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Dinar Khafizullin (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Bogdan Kiselevich (CSKA Moscow, KHL, )
• Alexei Marchenko (CSKA Moscow, KHL, )
• Nikita Nesterov (CSKA Moscow, KHL, )
• Vyacheslav Voinov (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Artyom Zub (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Andrei Zubarev (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )

Forwards:

• Sergei Andronov (CSKA Moscow, KHL, )
• Alexander Barabanov (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Pavel Datsyuk (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Mikhail Grigorenko (CSKA Moscow, KHL, )
• Nikita Gusev (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Ilya Kablukov (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Sergei Kalinin (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Kirill Kaprizov (CSKA Moscow, KHL, )
• Ilya Kovalchuk (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk, KHL, )
• Nikolai Prokhorkin (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Vadim Shipachyov (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Sergei Shirokov (SKA St. Petersburg, KHL, )
• Ivan Telegin (CSKA Moscow, KHL, )     

 

 

OMG!!!!

but are we gonna watch the Olympic tournament or an all-star game?

basically it's a 2-team shuffle with only 2 "foreigners"...

 

p.s. and I still have some friends who think that SKA and CSKA aren't good enough to be Stanley Cup contenders if they were at the start in the NHL...

moreover, just take note that those 2 teams can't even be the 2 KHL finalists, since they play in the same Conference...

 

 

p.p.s. by the way, if they don't come home with Gold this time, they won't get it anymore for the remaining days in the history of the game of hockey...

Edited January 25, 2018 by phelps

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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

And thanks, bookmakers still have odds of 2+ (even 2.75) for Russia/OAR to win the gold 

 

Now I am very well aware nobody ever has 100% chance to win anything, but that does sound good  

 

gotta bet some €...quickly, before they realize the risk and sink the odds brutally...

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Patrik Zackrisson and John Norman have been added to the Swedish team.

[hckošice 16,623]

All Rosters updated in post 2 of this thread

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one change in the German team. The Mannheim Adler´s defencer Sinan Akdag will replace his team mate Denis Reul, who had to submit a ankle surgery.

 

Interesting news about the 38 years old USA´s Brian Gionta, who has no club this whole season, but apparently he made a deal with AHL´s Rochester to play one match for them before the departures to Korea against Toronto on Friday. This will be only his 4th match this season after the 3 games of USA in the Deutschland Cup last November