Official 2014 Olympic Hockey Thread (Admin warning #316)

[BottleOfSmoke 5,965]

The names of some of these Sloveniakians are amazing

ROK TICAR

And the coach is apparently Anze's dad and his name is MattJazzhands

Get it together Sweden

Edited February 19, 2014 by BottleOfSmoke

[Namingway 146]

Oh man, the crowd is much louder than yesterday's Russia vs Norway game

[FlashyG 1,799]

I'm so conflicted in this game. The Wings all play for Sweden but its so hard to cheer against Slovenia who are easily the cinderella team of this tournament.

[BottleOfSmoke 5,965]

If this doesn't convince you Flashy I don't know what will.

Edited February 19, 2014 by BottleOfSmoke

[cnot19 191]

sweden does not look that good my pick for the gold is the winner of USA/Canada, naturally that will be USA

[frankgrimes 1,836]

Huge respect for Slovenia they are playing very well against a top 4 powerhouse. Sweden even with all the injuries should be able too dominate them, so far it's an evenly matched game wow

[Namingway 146]

Huge respect for Slovenia they are playing very well against a top 4 powerhouse. Sweden even with all the injuries should be able too dominate them, so far it's an evenly matched game wow

You know, that's how I felt about Norway. Lost to Canada 1-3 and were really close with Russia for the most part of the game, well, at least till the last couple mins

[BottleOfSmoke 5,965]

2-0 Tre Kronor beeeeeches

Creepy ginger f***

[cnot19 191]

if I am an opponent of sweden, the game plan would be to play physical and dare the refs to make the call. Latvia and SLovenia have targeted karlsson physically and have caused multiple mistakes. King Henrik may be the equalizer, but without the other sedin and zetterberg they don't have as much firepower.

[BottleOfSmoke 5,965]

3-0 Erickson from Ericsson and Erixson at Airiksin minutes of the Errrrkjfdfcson period

[dropkickshanahans 463]

Dirty play, nice goal

[BottleOfSmoke 5,965]

4-0! Now we're rollin!

Do you think they looked at pictures of Z's beard during second intermission?

[Ekmanc 586]

Nice for Hagelin to get one too and I like that were finally seeing some goals from Sweden.

[BottleOfSmoke 5,965]

@cotsonika: Babcock pointed out back-to-backs are tough for smaller countries because of depth. Sweden pulled away on Slovenia in third. Factor tonight?

[dropkickshanahans 463]

Karlsson's vision is just so good.

[Ekmanc 586]

These toe goals were Hagelins first ever for team Sweden.

[peabrain 5]

Edlers been looking really good since he joined team sweden. Wings should get him.

[frankgrimes 1,836]

Wow Sweden is really pushing it right now. Slovenia should be proud, they have under 1.000 registered hockeyplayers and are top 8 maybe 7 in their first olympic tournament.

[cnot19 191]

@cotsonika: Babcock pointed out back-to-backs are tough for smaller countries because of depth. Sweden pulled away on Slovenia in third. Factor tonight?

Brian Engblom also mentioned it during the broadcast, I definitely think there is some merit to that fact, especially when teams may be so shallow. Also, you have to consider the emotional drain/celebration latvia had to win that game, could go two ways nothing to lose (they tighten their D system and score when they need to) could possibly result in a close game or they are simply happy to get past the Swiss(which will have begging for mercy and being run over by Canada).

Edited February 19, 2014 by cnot19

[cnot19 191]

Edlers been looking really good since he joined team sweden. Wings should get him.

IMO he has looked OK he is still prone to mistakes for what were required to give up hes not worth it. Sure if hes simply coming here without giving assets back im happy with that.

[cnot19 191]

I think Russia beats Finland by 2 or more. Just my opinion, Finland was dominated by Canada, Im thinking the same will ensue with Russi cracking Rask for than twice; FInns cant keep up

[FlashyG 1,799]

I'm not so sure about that cnot.

Russia played yesterday, and will be facing a team that's very good at clogging up the ice. Russia was forced to dump the puck in a lot vs Norway and thankfully for them they had the speed to win most of the puck races, but those races will be much more even vs Finland.

I think the key for Russia will be to jump ahead early, because if they go through the first period tied 0-0 and the fans get taken out of the game, I expect Finland to win a low scoring game with a late goal.

[Hockeymom1960 5,107]

Go FINLAND!!!

[Namingway 146]

Man, Datsyuk is being a beast. Him and Kovalchuk play so well together

[WorkingOvertime 536]

Tied!