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GDT: Group A - May 14 - Slovakia (1) vs USA (6)

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Chainshot said:
They showed an isolation replay of him on the ice and coming into contact with Compher's skate. Hopefully it's not serious, but the trainer was holding his arm on the walk to the dressing room.
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The trainer was holding his arm, that doesnt sound good.

Hmm.
 
Eichel hasn't impress me overall. His spot could be better spent on someone who play like they want to be here.
 
lol, imagine Italy beating Denmark for 3 points.

Oh wait, it doesn't matter if Italy wins against Denmark or does it? Slovakia is saved even with 4 points, correct?
 
kudla said:
Okay our goalie Hudacek just said that we have absolutely no chance against Sweden... this is strong
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And? He is absolutely right. Finally one of our players said something honest and true.

EDIT: And nope, we aren't saved. We have to hope Italy does not win.
 
tade said:
lol, imagine Italy beating Denmark for 3 points.

Oh wait, it doesn't matter if Italy wins against Denmark or does it? Slovakia is saved even with 4 points, correct?
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I think in the case of a tie on 4 points, first tie breaker is head to head, which would mean:

6 Italy 4
7 Slovakia 3
8 Denmark 2

If that's the case, because Denmark can't be relegated, it should come down to goal difference against Belarus (Belarus currently has the edge there by 1 goal, and could even take points off Norway, or at least lose by a smaller margin then Slovakia against a strengthened and motivated Swedish side...)
 
If Denmark scores a point against Sweden, we're good
If Italy does not score 3 points against Denmark, we're good
If Belarus loses to Norway a lot and we lose to Sweden a little, we're good
If we score at least a single point against Sweden, we're good

Considering Denmark is currently down by 3 against Sweden after 2nd period, will play well rested Italy with less than 24 hours after this match and has nothing to play for (they can't relegate nor get to QF), while Italy will be fighting for life... everything is possible there.

Norway has a match against Canada tomorrow and will face Belarus the day after, who have 2 days off before that match.

Given we're talking about the last games of the round robin, fatigue (both physical and emotional) can be a very real thing to tip the odds one way or another.

Swedes still have something to play for in their last match, as do we. I don't think we can rely on anyone else to fight our battles at this point.
 
satbank said:
Eichel hasn't impress me overall. His spot could be better spent on someone who play like they want to be here.
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Things​ just haven't gone his way and instead of bearing down a bit more and fighting through it, he's apparently decided to wait until he gets a bounce before expending too much effort.

If you would have told me he'd have 0 goals 6 games into this tournament while playing with Johnny Gaudreau, I don't think I'd have believed you.
 
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