Olympic Hockey Teams

Here are the groups & the # of N.H.L. players, i see on each team i have ranked them in my own power rankings, feel free to give your own rankings or add to a team a player i may have missed, like to see who everyone thinks wins Gold ,Silver & Bronze medals

Group A

1 Canada  23 N.H.L. Players

2  U.S.A.   23 N.H.L. Players

3 Switzerland 2 N.H.L. Players

4 Norway  1 N.H.L. Players

Group B

1 Russia 14 N.H.L. Players + Sergei Fedorov 41 yrs old

2 Czech Republic 16 N.H.L. Players + Jaromir Jagr 38 yrs old

3 Slovakia 13 N.H.L. Players + Ziggy Palffy 38 yrs old

4 Lativa   2 N.H.L. Players

Group C

1 Sweden 19 N.H.L. Players + Peter Forsberg 37 yrs old

2 Finland  18 N.H.L. Players

3 Germany  7 N.H.L. Players

4 Belarus   4 N.H.L. Players

This is my take on

Top 5 Teams to get the Gold

1. Canada The Favorites, with the home ice & best goalies Imo

2. Russia This  team is loaded Ov,his line mate Semin,  Datsyuk & Malkin

3. U.S.A. Counting on Quick, Miller seems tired

4. Sweden  The defending Champs, Four Wings the Sedins & Forsberg

5. Finland  Finshed second in 2006 Kipper & The Backstop will be tough

5a.  Cant count out Czechs finished third in 2006

Quote Originally Posted by Vasko:

usa over sweden?

Have a feelin the States will finish 3rd

Quote Originally Posted by bluesplayer:

Ill root for the USA but it wont matter to me if they finish Bronze, more interested in units... But i do hope they compeate.

3rd game Canada-USA clash

  GL       Gers  

Thanks   Blues     Yes its about all of us winning some cashola, but I hope our boys play hard & finish higher than 2006, 8th place was dissapointing

8th  that was bad

How can you say Quick seems tired ? He had a S/O last game........

YDS I wouldnt say they are no match Afinogenov,Fedorov,Kozlov,Markov,& there three goalies Nabokov,Bryzgalov & Varlamov & like 10 other guys from the Red Army that end in OV if they wernt any good they wouldnt be on the team 

Sweeden

Russia

Canada

Czech

USA

Avs 

Sweden +600 on the 2006 Golden boys, that would be a bell ringer

Tomorrows games

USA vs Switzerland   3:00 p.m. est.

Canada vs Norway    7:30 p.m.  est.

Russia vs Latvia       12:00 a.m. est.

  Anyone have lines on these games 

USA -2.5 OVER 6:  UNDER 6 (youth and goal keeping will keep scoring low) USA 3  SWITZ 1

cANADA -6 OVER 8:  NORWAY +6 (Canada wins but not by more than 6)  Canada 6 Norway 1

RUSSIA -4 OVER 7:  RUSSIA -4 - play of day (Russia too powerful and beat Latvia 9-2 on 2006 and Russia is better now)  Russia 7 Latvia 2