Russia and Sweden to play the Final

Russian looks already in the final and I guess that’s no surprise, especially when we saw Switzerland sensationally losing to Germany. They surely take this Championship seriously after disappointing Olympic games. All stars are here to prove that they are worth cheering, nothing less then gold is expected from such squad. Sweden were my favorites before tournament started and they have got better and better from game to game and now they face Czech Republic, the team that also started bad. Here are my thought on tomorrow’s matches.

Russia – Germany

My bets: Russia (-2,5 goals) (odds up to 1.70 @William Hill),  Over5 goals (odds up to 1.93 @Pinnacle)

Once again I will go against home team and perhaps I will be punished for that yet again. But Germany still in my opinion is a rather weak team.

Quarter finals of Ice Hockey World Championship

Sorry for being quite for a long time, have lots of work recently. But yet I kept on following on the sport events, including Ice Hockey World championship 2010. A lot of surprising results, a lot of new teams that made great results here – all thats classics for the post-Olympic WC Championship. That’s became a well known fact that North-Americans care less about World Championship, especially in the season after Olympics. Poor results from USA were well expected by me. Canada also brought experimental team, with a lot of youth players in the roster. That was good enough for the weak teams, but for the quality sides with good defense it wasn’t (Canada lost to Switzerland 1:4, to Sweden 1:3 and finally to Czechs 2:3). That was their worst result since introducing play-off system back in 1992. That’s truly sums up their performance in the group stage. The price for such careless attitude – quarter final meeting with Red Machine, Russia, who won all games here with confidence of the tank, having all their main stars in the squad. Now let’s take a look on all of the quarterfinals.

Sweden – Denmark

My Bets: Sweden (-2,5 goals), Over 5,5 goals.

Sweden have never lost to Denmark in any competition. Nothing will change today. Sweden started Championship slowly, but yet they managed to score wins in every encounter. The only match they’ve lost at the group stage, was the defeat to Czech Republic 1:2. After that Swedish game was only rising and they’ve added in strength a lot. 3 convincing wins over Latvia (4:2), Canada (3:1) and Switzerland (5:0) proved just that – they are big team, that have its best in play-offs. Denmark on the other hand have reached its highest level ever to early and now they are destined to lose. I guess this will be overs and Sweden (-2,5) handicap.