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Game time tomorrow is 8:30 CST. Go USA !!

They’ll need to play better and smarter tomorrow to beat Canada. At least they made it to the gold medal game and they have a chance.

Nice goal

Throwing this game away.

Extremely bad unforced penalty on Caufield. Got to be smarter than that.

Nope

Shots now 19-1 Canada. Score is 1-0. It always makes me nervous when my team is dominating but can’t pull away on the scoreboard. That shot discrepancy is not likely to continue and I would expect Finland to make a push at some point.

I believe all the games today can be found here.

If I looked this up right: Sweden’s last group round loss was to the USA on 12/31/2006 (3-2 in ot). A kid named Toews was playing for Canada.

I believe that is 54 straight wins in the group rounds. Amazing streak in any sport but unbelievable in hockey.

Sweden vs Russia

Thanks

Slovakia vs Finland

Why does Finland need a regulation win today ? Wouldn’t one point still give them first place if they beat Canada ? Don’t know what is used for tie breakers but even a regulation loss today by Finland would still let them tie Canada with a win tomorrow. Am I missing something ?

Canada vs Switzerland

USA vs Czech Republic

Czech vs Russia

Canada vs Slovakia

7-0 after 2. Shots 52-5. Second period shots 30-2.

1-0 US after 1. Shots 22-3.

USA vs Austria

Canada vs Germany

Painful to watch. They look tired and unprepared.

All games are important especially this year. Too many unknowns on how playoffs will work. Will there still be 16 teams ? What is the selection criteria when there are no out of conference games ? It wouldn’t surprise me if they gave auto bids to conference regular season winners and playoff winners. That could greatly limit the at large bids and limit the number of teams from a specific conference. While the NCHC has been the best conference for a number of years now that does not guarantee anything this year once the politics of a selection committee get involved since there is no way to measure conferences against one another. Control what you can control. Finish in the top two and you are in. Probably top three. Finish in fourth or lower and you may be out unless you win the conference tournament. Highly unlikely you will see five teams from the NCHC in the tournament no matter how good they may be.

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