Olympics Underway!

First men's hockey games of the Olympics get rolling today. Russia survived a scare, US looked strong, the Czech coach was apparently sending messages and Slovakia got destroyed.

How will Canada do?

Let us take some predictions.

GOLD: Canada
Silver:Sweeden
Bronze:Russia
4th: USA

Sounds good, I hope however this is set up that my answer is even attainable, lol.

Gold: Canada
Silver: USA
Bronze: Russia
4th: Sweden

My four is exactly the same as Virans actually. I probably would have had Sweden beating Canada too before Zetterberg dropped out.

And there go all the predictions.

How about a new contest, over/under on how many Russian players don't make it out of there alive?

The problem is that Sawaryn was not controlling Ovechkin.

Sidney Crosby
2010 Olympics
Group Play: 3 GP, 2 G, 3 A, 5 Pts, -1, 4 PIM
Elimination Play: 4 GP, 2 G, 0 A, 2 Pts, +3, 0 PIM

2014 Olympics
Group Play: 3 GP, 0 G, 2 A, 2 Pts, +2, 0 PIM
Elimination Play: 1 GP, 0 G, 0 A, 0 Pts, -, 0 PIM

11 GP so far, 4 G, 5 A, 9 Pts, +4, 4 PIM (only 4 points in his last 8 games though)

Not bad until you consider that in those 11 games, he's faced Norway (x2), Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Latvia to make up just over half those games. The whole "Kunitz knows how to play with him" idea doesn't seem to have panned out all that well either.

ahh was off by one. Finland beat out Russia otherwise I wouldve nailed it. damn!