Here comes the excitement of the play-off, today is the night of a true Ice-Hockey show when 8 best teams of the World
will square off in the battle for the medals. Very interesting pairs, with only one match that looks special – Canada-Russia. Thats the only disappointment of this year tournament, neither of this teams deserves to stay without any medals and if even Russia win tonight, I will still feel sorry for Canadians. I will be supporting Russian team, like I always do, but thats’ doesn’t affect my way of predictions.
USA – Switzerland
Thats the only match, where I can’t find any option to bet. USA will progress in this match, but I can’t quite say will they do it with handicap or not. I even can’t quite say with 100% confidence, whether they will Read more…
So, the recreational hockey tournament is over and it is now do or die phase, with no mistakes available. And I would like to share my thoughts on play off structure and possible chances to progress to the next phase. My prediction of the final you already saw in the title, I don’t pretend thats gonna happen in real life, but that’s the way I see this teams. I will start the overall analysis of the teams who are considered by bookies and by me also as a main contenders to take gold medals. I will surprise you and will start with the team that I think has fewer chances to get gold, despite being favorites in bookies opinion.
Canada. 
Odds @ Betfair: 3.10
Canada got themselves into troubles, losing to USA. Now to take gold medals they have to win almost all the favorites of this tournament, both Russia and Sweden are on they way to the final. They have great team with great individuals, but I can’t quite see a team from this stars. They looked too confident in the match against USA and they paid the prise for that. Now they are at risk of not getting even a medal at home Olympics – thats gonna be an absolute disaster for them and I guess they are completely confident that they gonna progress in the match against Red Machine… Read more…
This weekend decided to make a brake in live trading on Twitter, cause of many factors. I find it hard to make a moves and post at Twitter at the same time, this was the reason why I’ve posted my moves too late and, most importantly, I made several mistakes, which inevitable led to the loss of money. Thats why I decided to dedicate this weekend to trading, mostly with experiments. For that purpose I deposited 100 Euros, the maximum amount I can risk for the experiment betting. During the weekend made trades on 15 matches, risking no more then 20 euro on the event and all of them on overs/unders. I will post my analysis later this week (perhaps I will make analysis in the evening, no interesting trades on monday). The results of my experiments, with all of mistakes I’ve made, were impressive Read more…
Well, I had dedicated 3 bets to the Women Ice-hockey games and while searching for information about some of the teams, found a lot of factors that put in doubt women ice-hockey tournament as an Olympic one. How can competitive sport, in preliminary round end with a scoreline 82:0? How can a game in the final tournament end up 18:0? I know that the issues of equal rights for women and men are very important, but don’t you think sometimes they get to far really. Ice-hockey, weightlifting, boxing thats the sports that should do men, cause they are tough by its standards. And personally the picture of woman pulling some 200 kilos looks abnormal for me. More less the same I can say about ice-hockey.
But here is the funny side about it. While analyzing how strong were Slovakia team and how did they manage to qualify for the Olympics, I have found out that they played qualification tournament here in Latvia and there was one particular game that maybe wonder why women Ice-hockey became Olympic sport, when there is only 2 teams competing for gold. So its Slovakia Bulgaria game, which finished 82:0. Watch and enjoy:
Slovakia – Bulgaria 82:0 part-1
Slovakia – Bulgaria 82:0 part-2 (where they put the goalie out of goal for a sixth player, at scoreline 77:0)
Slovakia – Bulgaria 82:0 part-3 (awful part here, 2 women had a fight in that match and one receiving heavy injury)
will square off in the battle for the medals. Very interesting pairs, with only one match that looks special – Canada-Russia. Thats the only disappointment of this year tournament, neither of this teams deserves to stay without any medals and if even Russia win tonight, I will still feel sorry for Canadians. I will be supporting Russian team, like I always do, but thats’ doesn’t affect my way of predictions.
