GDT: Group B - May 17 - Canada (0) vs Finland (4)
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Stongly disagree, but I do wish they'll put Haddaway on like they did in the WJC.
And ah promise ah'll flip.
I find the scheduling strange, plus both good and bad. On the one hand, we have two great matchups, in both pools, to end the round robin. BUT the higher cede, and better teams on paper ( aka Russia and Canada ) are playing on back to back days...
Also to start the tourney, Defending champs Canada got last year's bronze medalists USA, ( in similar fashion, silver medallist Russia started vs Czechs ) plus the home team, the team with last line change, was team red white and blue.
For the longest time schedule makers tended to favour the higher cede ( that is to say, the team which finished higher in last year's tourney ), most often saddling their, on paper, biggest rivals with back to back games...which seemed more apropos, to me, since it seemed to reward past success/ penalize failure...
Also, in previous years, Canada got to ease into the tourney by playing comparative minnows in their first couple of games...No longer it seems...
Kinda strange? So now if Suomi is the home side, on top of being the more rested team, time to call for an investigation
Also to start the tourney, Defending champs Canada got last year's bronze medalists USA, ( in similar fashion, silver medallist Russia started vs Czechs ) plus the home team, the team with last line change, was team red white and blue.
For the longest time schedule makers tended to favour the higher cede ( that is to say, the team which finished higher in last year's tourney ), most often saddling their, on paper, biggest rivals with back to back games...which seemed more apropos, to me, since it seemed to reward past success/ penalize failure...
Also, in previous years, Canada got to ease into the tourney by playing comparative minnows in their first couple of games...No longer it seems...
Kinda strange? So now if Suomi is the home side, on top of being the more rested team, time to call for an investigation
Ben Matlock
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Because the attitude sucks. Denmark beat the Czech Republic and have fairly recently won against Finland in one of these Skoda tournaments. To actually call it a free pass in advance is just too cocky. It's fine to write that Finland would have a much better chance against Denmark, but not to basically say it's enough if we show up.
I find the scheduling strange, plus both good and bad. On the one hand, we have two great matchups, in both pools, to end the round robin. BUT the higher cede, and better teams on paper ( aka Russia and Canada ) are playing on back to back days...
Also to start the tourney, Defending champs Canada got last year's bronze medalists USA, ( in similar fashion, silver medallist Russia started vs Czechs ) plus the home team, the team with last line change, was team red white and blue.
For the longest time schedule makers tended to favour the higher cede ( that is to say, the team which finished higher in last year's tourney ), most often saddling their, on paper, biggest rivals with back to back games...which seemed more apropos, to me, since it seemed to reward past success/ penalize failure...
Also, in previous years, Canada got to ease into the tourney by playing comparative minnows in their first couple of games...No longer it seems...
Kinda strange? So now if Suomi is the home side, on top of being the more rested team, time to call for an investigation
Well, Finland played vs USA in a back to back when USA was rested. The scheduling just can't be perfectly fair for everyone.
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I'm hoping for a tough game, regardless of Canada winning or losing. These players need some adversity given their age. Hoping for an easier route to the finals is a loser's mentality.
I'm going to guess 4-3 for Canada. Canada wins if it plays up to its potential, loses if the defencemen play to their age/inexperience.
I'm going to guess 4-3 for Canada. Canada wins if it plays up to its potential, loses if the defencemen play to their age/inexperience.
Tut tut...Denmark lost 10-1 to Russia...Whichever team gets Danes in QF's...seems like a FREE PASS to me...
Yeah. Denmark is as free a win for Finland as teams like France, Norway, Belarus etc. are. The team shouldn't treat it as a day off but we the fans certainly can treat it as a free win.
Yes, but Suomi was ceded lower than US going in to the tourney...so that particular scheduling does seem fair...It seemed in the old days , schedulers made a conscious decision to try to favour the higher cede vs an arch rival ( aka closely ceded team ), whenever possible
Finland certainly wasn't seeded below USA.
Sweden actually lost to Czechia in the same matchup in group A, when Czechia was rested and Sweden was on a back-to-back.
GWNR
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This is gonna be a good game.
The progress of the Finnish program at all levels over the last 10 years has been truly incredible. Major kudos.
The progress of the Finnish program at all levels over the last 10 years has been truly incredible. Major kudos.
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I claim to know little of showbiz, but I once was in charge of slotting up the acts for the show in the ending celebrations of our NCO course when I was doing my conscription, and the cadre personnel gave me the instructions that the show is to start with one of the better acts, there should be some good stuff in about the middle bit and the show was naturally to end with the biggest and funniest blow-out any of the NCO student platoons could manage to come up with.
Seems okay to me so.
Historically, Canada tended to start slowly in these tourneys, so facing minnows early on worked to our advantage...BUT we don't tend to airlift in players at the eleventh hour either ( Ellis being a notable exception ) so I guess it's not that big a deal...
Duh...they certainly were when the schedule was made...Yanks were last year's BRONZE MEDALISTS
Canada has anything but a solid defense, but they can contribute offensively. Finland's D looks pretty pedestrian, though I can't say I know much about them.
If Finland plays their butt off the forwards are a match for Canada.
Conclusion: Canada wins due to better( but still weak) D.
If Finland plays their butt off the forwards are a match for Canada.
Conclusion: Canada wins due to better( but still weak) D.
If Finland meets Sweden in the QF, Finland would be the favorite this year. No matter what we Finns tell ourselves.
So out of the three options still possible, our guys would be underdogs only vs. Russia.
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Well i hope it too. I think that if we lose today our way to final might be more easy.
I would take Sweden->Czech->Russia/Kanada 11time to 10 against Denmark->Russia-->Kanada
But yeah we are not like Swedish people... We always try to win all games in the tournaments.
Is seeding based on last year's results? I don't know, but I would have assumed it's based on iihf ranking, which has Finland at 4. and USA at 5.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIHF_World_Ranking
though I'd also assume that stuff like the need to place Finland in Saint Petersburg group also plays a part.
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was supposed to edit the previous post, not make a new one. oh well.
Anyway, I agree that the scheduling couldn't have favoured Finland more if I had designed it myself. A day off before the game and a good tune up game against Slovakia.
garnetpalmetto
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Please note that before there's any rending of flesh or gnashing of teeth that the lines are projected (and by projected they're based on what the lines were in each team's last game). Lines will be updated when they're finalized and posted on the IIHF site. This is just a public service announcement because I don't want to cause the heart attack rates in either Canada or Finland to go up.
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Good luck to the Finns today! 
Lets have a good clean game on the ice, and in the forum boys and girls!
Haven't seen any Finnish games since the Americans, looking forward to seeing them play tooth and nail as always!
Hoping for some magic from McDavid. He's been looking more dangerous.
Lets have a good clean game on the ice, and in the forum boys and girls!
Haven't seen any Finnish games since the Americans, looking forward to seeing them play tooth and nail as always!
Hoping for some magic from McDavid. He's been looking more dangerous.
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