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Projected Lineups for Game 2: United States Forwards: Connor - Eichel - M. Tkachuk Guentzel - Matthews - Hughes B. Tkachuk - Miller - Boldy Nelson - Trocheck - Larkin Defensemen: Werenski - McAvoy Slavin - Fox Hanifin - Faber Goalies: Hellebuyck (Starter) Oettinger Scratches: Kreider, Sanderson, Swayman Finland Forwards: Lehkonen - Barkov - Rantanen Hintz - Aho - Laine Luostarinen - Lundell - Granlund Teravainen - Haula - Armia Defensemen: Mikkola - Lindell Vaakanainen - Matinpalo Maatta - Jokiharju Goalies: Saros (Starter) Luukkonen Scratches: Valimaki, Kakko, Lankinen

Highlights: Canada vs. Sweden | 4 Nations Face-Off Highlights | February 12, 2025

What a game to start the tournament!

We've been waiting almost 9 years for a best on best ice hockey tournament and that 1st period delivered. Canada with a dominant period over Sweden and they lead 2-0 after the 1st period

Projected Lineups for Game 1: Canada Forwards: Reinhart - McDavid - Marner Crosby - MacKinnon - Stone Marchand - Point - Jarvis Hagel - Cirelli - Konecny Defensemen: Toews - Makar Theodore - Doughty Morrissey - Parayko Goalies: Binnington (Starter) Hill Scratches: Bennett, Sanheim, Montembeault Sweden Forwards: Nylander - Zibanejad - Rakell Forsberg - Pettersson - Kempe Bratt - Eriksson Ek - Raymond Nyquist - Lindholm - Arvidsson Defensemen: Hedman - Brodin Ekholm - Karlsson Dahlin - Forsling Goalies: Gustavsson (Starter) Ullmark Scratches: Carlsson, Andersson, Ersson

The Czechs winning a medal without Davidova is very impressive. Very happy for them!

Exciting race for 2nd between . could also get in there

Now a penalty loop for Sweden

Based on their practice today, Canada will be rolling out a powerplay unit of Crosby, MacKinnon, Makar, McDavid and Reinhart @Josh

Some fun facts: With Sarault and Brunelle winning the 1500m and 500m today, Canada has won each event at least once during this world tour season. 8 different Canadians have won an individual medal and 6 of them have won an individual gold medal.

Chiefs got destroyed (don't let the score fool you, it wasn't close) The eagles defense was absolutely dominant. You've gotta give major props to them.

As expected, there've been a few injuries before the tournament began and replacements have been announced. Here's a breakdown: Nation Position Injured Player Replacement Player D Alex Pietrangelo Drew Doughty D Miro Heiskanen Urho Vakaanainen D Jani Hakanpaa Henri Jokiharju D Rasmus Ristolainen Nikolas Matinaplo G Jacob Markstrom Samuel Ersson F William Karlsson Rickard Rakell D Quinn Hughes Jake Sanderson Heiskanen's injury is by far the biggest hit here as without him, Finland doesn't have another offensive-minded d-man to step up in his place.

Yes, I do plan on making qualification posts for other sports as we get closer to the qualification deadlines. Mostly for rankings lists that aren't made public by the sports federations. For now, you can find the biathlon rankings here and olympic allocation lists for freestyle skiing and snowboarding here

It's a bronze in the team relay! First World Championship medal this year

Another bronze for Liliane Gagnon in the U23 10km Interval Start

Embyr-Lee Susko finished 4TH in the women's singles at the World Championships. She had home track advantage but still a very impressive result

Going to be an interesting World Tour stop this weekend with the Asian games going on. Korea did not send a team to Tilburg and it looks like China and Kazakhstan have B teams. Japan looks to have most of their A team here but still missing some top skaters

Cam Alexander is out of the Super-G after crashing in the downhill training yesterday

Good luck to the people who have to select the mens snowboard slope style and big air team. Some world class snowboarders are going to be left off.

In the mens race, 2009 born Zachari Moreau finished 18th out of 71 finishers. He was the youngest athlete in the race.

Yes. I was going to post the list of countries that got a basic quota after the championships were over but I can just keep editing this post as I doubt that there'll be many more countries that earn the basic quota. The following NOC's have earned the basic quota (1 athlete) for the respective gender: Men: Women:

Oh the Tour de Ski Overall counts as well? That would explain the discrepancies then . I'm sure Brazil will be in the top 30 in the end given the top 3 athletes are scored and they have better depth than some of the countries at the bottom of the rankings.

Cross-Country Skiing NOC Quota Standings as of February 2nd These are the quotas that get allocated to NOCs after the basic quota (1 male + 1 female) is allocated to NOC's who have athletes that have the required amount of points. These standings are NOT the same as the World Cup Nations Cup. The Nations cup only gives points to the top 30 athletes in a race while the Olympic rankings give points to every athlete which partakes in a race and also includes World Championships and World Junior Championships results. I attempted to calculate the standings using this document as I don't believe the list has been made public yet. 4 quotas 3 quotas 2 quotas 1 quota Men Rank NOC Points 1 Norway 13185 2 Sweden 9254 3 France 8930 4 Finland 7746 5 United States 7291 6 Italy 6442 7 Germany 6336 8 Switzerland 6145 9 Czechia 4144 10 Canada 4037 11 Austria 4035 12 Great Britain 3434 13 Slovenia 3164 14 Estonia 3007 15 Australia 2129 16 Japan 1587 17 Latvia 1568 18 Poland 1441 19 Kazakhstan 1246 20 Andorra 1170 21 Spain 1170 22 Ireland 1161 23 Hungary 812 24 Ukraine 712 25 China 621 26 Thailand 336 27 Armenia 276 28 Romania 266 29 Slovakia 217 30 Bulgaria 193 31 Mongolia 137 32 Serbia 131 33 Argentina 118 34 Korea 115 35 Croatia 97 36 Chile 80 37 Colombia 76 38 North Macedonia 47 39 Lithuania 47 40 Belgium 45 41 Liechtenstein 39 Women Rank NOC Points 1 Norway 12310 2 Sweden 10634 3 Finland 9539 4 Germany 9529 5 United States 8562 6 Switzerland 6329 7 France 5039 8 Italy 4680 9 Canada 4533 10 Czechia 4298 11 Austria 3636 12 Estonia 2190 13 Slovenia 1885 14 Kazakhstan 1677 15 Ukraine 1304 16 Australia 1203 17 Poland 588 18 Japan 510 19 Latvia 442 20 Chinese Taipei 194 21 Andorra 183 22 Armenia 131 23 Korea 122

Uzbekistan may be able to get a medal in short track. I believe both of their athletes used to compete for Russia.

He's human after all