GDT: May 6 • Switzerland vs. Latvia

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2015 IIHF World Championship
Group A

May 6
10:15 AM ET • 16:15 CET

Switzerland
Projected lineup.

Left Wing​

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Center​

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Right Wing​

70 Denis Hollenstein​

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88 Kevin Romy​

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96 Damien Brunner​

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26 Reto Suri​

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89 Cody Almond​

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21 Kevin Fiala​

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23 Simon Bodenmann​

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10 Andres Ambühl

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48 Matthias Bieber​

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56 Dino Wieser​

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43 Morris Trachsler​

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95 Julian Walker​

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-​

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19 Reto Schäppi​

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-​

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Left Defense​

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Right Defense​

4 Patrick Geering​

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7 Mark Streit

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90 Roman Josi

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58 Eric Blum​

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77 Roman Grossmann​

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6 Timo Helbling​

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34 Dean Kukan​

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-​

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Starter​

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Backup​

20 Reto Berra​

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63 Leonardo Genoni​

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Scratched​

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Details​

D 13 Félicien Du Bois​

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Injury​

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G 79 Daniel Manzato​

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Healthy​

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Latvia
Projected lineup.

Left Wing​

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Center​

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Right Wing​

70 Miks Indrašis​

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5 Jānis Sprukts

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24 Miķelis Rēdlihs​

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10 Lauris Dārziņš

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25 Andris Džeriņš​

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16 Kaspars Daugaviņš

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71 Roberts Bukarts​

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18 Rodrigo Ābols​

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47 Mārtiņš Cipulis​

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17 Kaspars Saulietis​

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21 Armands Bērziņš​

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73 Gunārs Skvorcovs​

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-​

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-​

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59 Lauris Bajarūns​

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Left Defense​

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Right Defense​

23 Aleksandrs Jerofejevs​

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9 Krišjānis Rēdlihs​

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13 Guntis Galviņš​

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11 Kristaps Sotnieks​

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44 Oskars Cibuļskis​

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3 Maksims Širokovs​

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22 Māris Jass​

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-​

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Starter​

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Backup​

31 Edgars Masaļskis​

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33 Ervīns Muštukovs​

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Scratched​

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Details​

F 90 Koba Jass​

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Healthy​

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D 4 Jānis Andersons​

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Healthy​

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Officials​

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Referee​

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17 Maxim Sidorenko | -

Referee​

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20 Vladimír Šindler | -

Linesman​

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56 Gleb Lazarev | -

Linesman​

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64 Jon Kilian | -

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[Jon Riley]

Keep up with the solid defense of the last two matches, don't get stupid penalties (are the two minutes for too many men really that necessary? I know it is becoming a tradition, but whatever, I think I could do without) and everything will be fine.

Winning this means basically QF, so I hope that taking points from the Czechs, the swedes or the canadians will not be necessary.

After that everything will be about figuring out whether playing horribly but winning will still be possible against stronger teams.

After all the final two years ago was reached thanks to airtight defense and deadly breakaways.

 

[doug88]

Hopefully Berra won't screw up this one.

 

[marciiauzii]

Final chance to make things right. That Swiss D tho

 

[Namejs]

Forward lines for the today's game:

Indrasis - Sprukts - Redlihs
Darzins - Dzerins - Daugavins
Bukarts - Abols - Cipulis
Skvorcovs - Berzins - Saulietis

Indrasis moved to the 1st line, Bukarts to the 3rd handclap. Cipulis back from a minor injury.

No changes in the D pairings, as far as I know.

Overall this is a do-or-die game for Latvia. If Switzerland gets 2 or 3 points out of this, we won't make the QF.

 

[jonas2244]

Kukan is back.

 

[aphyro]

Kukan is back.

OnT: I say Switz win this game 3-1

 

[SwissLeaf]

You're laughing about a Swiss player? We're no friends anymore!

We will win this game! 4-1 for us. Welcome to the Josi show!

 

[OscarsCards]

Latvia vs Switzerland previous WCh game record - 9 games played, only 1 GDS victory, 7 losses and 1 tie. Latvians has scored 16 goals but Swiss 29.

The Swiss are always one step ahead of us, one point from this game would be like victory...

 

[Namejs]

Getting a point out of this game would be what is commonly known as a loss. Quite literally.

If we're talking about odds, the bookies say that the Swiss have a 74% chance of a win today. Sounds about right.

 

[eyetest is useless]

Hopp Schwitz

 

[swissexpert]

Have a feeling this will be an ugly game.
Like every game against Latvia.
Like every game in 2015...

 

[Namejs]

Have a feeling this will be an ugly game.
Like every game against Latvia.
Like every game in 2015...

Intuitively I feel that it's going to be ugly because of how lopsided it's going to be in your favor.

I just have no trust whatsoever in this new Latvian team. A part of me almost wishes we would finish 14th or something, so the head coach would get fired and we could start from scratch again.

 

[Falling Snow]

i think it will be a "ugly" game again.. and i hope for a 2-1 swiss victory

 

[OscarsCards]

Getting a point out of this game would be what is commonly known as a loss. Quite literally.

If we're talking about odds, the bookies say that the Swiss have a 74% chance of a win today. Sounds about right.

Well, that is what I meant, cool cool.

Vladimir Shindler (?) will be as referee
Odds ar falling

 

[Jon Riley]

Damn I never noticed that..

 

[swissexpert]

Intuitively I feel that it's going to be ugly because of how lopsided it's going to be in your favor.

I hoped for lopsided games before every one of our first three, I gave it up by now
Could see another close win and could live with it.

 

[doug88]

OMG helbling is so stupid! No wonder he went to the SC Bern

 

[SCBdude]

OMG helbling is so stupid! No wonder he went to the SC Bern

Yeah, really a step down from playing in Fribourg

 

[Jon Riley]

Still 0 goals but the PP looks better. At least today they are shooting on goal. Ok, they could try to go for a rebound once in a while though..

 

[ozo]

Not too ugly, but certainly a not a classic either.

 

[jonas2244]

Latvia extremly defensive, they wait with all 5 players in the middle-zone.

Pretty even game, chances on both sides

 

[doug88]

Yeah, really a step down from playing in Fribourg

Can't get worse than Fribourg

 

[RobertR]

Masala certainly loves the Swiss.

And looks so much better with a beard.

 

[doug88]

Latvia extremly defensive, they wait with all 5 players in the middle-zone.

Pretty even game, chances on both sides

Looks like we're playing Lausanne..