Robin Hood
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Can anyone elaborate on how the relegation works? Is it correct it's only one team that get's relegated and that you carry the result of the match between the team from your preliminary group over?
Can anyone elaborate on how the relegation works? Is it correct it's only one team that get's relegated and that you carry the result of the match between the team from your preliminary group over?
Can anyone elaborate on how the relegation works? Is it correct it's only one team that get's relegated and that you carry the result of the match between the team from your preliminary group over?
Tanner Richard saves Switzerland with his OT-goal
And man oh man were they lucky... No team effort at all! Dean Kukan for example just played for himself and made one risky play after another, just to showcase another dispy-doodle move... Increadible!
If not for Tim Wolf, the Swiss would've lost this game after regulation!!
Doesn't matter, with this win the Swiss are already guaranteed not to be relegated, and the Americans are basically a lock to survive relegation too, since they won't lose to Latvia. And even if the Americans lost to Latvia in OT and lost to Switzerland in regulation, I believe there would still be no chance at all for them to be relegated, literally the only way the Americans get relegated is if they lose in regulation to both the Latvians and the Swiss, and there's no way they lose to the Latvians in regulation. By the time the Switzerland/USA game starts, I'd say there's about a 99.9% chance of it not mattering at all to either team.very well played by the Danes... eventhough the Swiss did not play to their potential they almost pulled off an upset here.
Wonder how the Swiss will regroup vs. team USA though.
The Swiss look like a mentally very fragile team - they played really strong against the Russians, even dominated play at times but did not find the back of the net. Against Sweden they showed some sparks of confidence with their 3rd period come-back - but boy did they play nervous in overtime and the shootout. Against the Slovaks - they looked like the much better team after one period, in the second they went up by 2 goals only to let the Slovaks come back - in the third extended their lead by one goal and stopped playing. Once the Slovaks tied it you knew they could not come back as they were totally shocked... and now this game against the Danes... just weak as long as their relegation was on the line... once they knew they will not get relegated (OT) they played like the favorites they were in that game, finally.
Just mental weakness...
I kind of agree, with it now being just 1 team getting relegated, there's really no reason for the Swiss and US to be in the relegation round, even before this game both teams were like 99% sure to not get relegated. If they're only relegating 1 team, why not just have 1 game between the bottom team from each group, with the loser getting relegated? That's essentially what will end up happening regardless, if you're carrying a win into the relegation round you just need to pick up around 0-1 points against likely inferior teams to avoid relegation.I think a better system would be that only the worst team in each group play mini-playoffs of two games, if wins are tied after second game there will be overtime.
Doesn't matter, with this win the Swiss are already guaranteed not to be relegated, and the Americans are basically a lock to survive relegation too, since they won't lose to Latvia. And even if the Americans lost to Latvia in OT and lost to Switzerland in regulation, I believe there would still be no chance at all for them to be relegated, literally the only way the Americans get relegated is if they lose in regulation to both the Latvians and the Swiss, and there's no way they lose to the Latvians in regulation. By the time the Switzerland/USA game starts, I'd say there's about a 99.9% chance of it not mattering at all to either team.
Assuming the Americans beat Latvia, whoever loses the Denmark/Latvia game will be the team who gets relegated. Denmark/Latvia could go either way though, both teams are pretty bad.
Read my post more carefully, I said the same thing. I said that the Swiss were 100% safe from relegation now, while the Americans could technically be relegated if they lost to both the Latvians and the Swiss in regulation, but realistically there's essentially no chance at all of them losing to the Latvians in regulation. And even then the Danes would have to beat the Latvians, also in regulation. I would say there's a 99.99% chance of the Americans avoiding relegation.Actually, if USA lost to both Latvia and Switzerland, and Denmark win over Latvia, USA will be relegated, but yeah, it's not gonna happen.
Read my post more carefully, I said the same thing. I said that the Swiss were 100% safe from relegation now, while the Americans could technically be relegated if they lost to both the Latvians and the Swiss in regulation, but realistically there's essentially no chance at all of them losing to the Latvians in regulation. And even then the Danes would have to beat the Latvians, also in regulation. I would say there's a 99.99% chance of the Americans avoiding relegation.
No problem, was a somewhat confusing box of text.Sorry, I misunderstood, thought you said they were totally safe, my bad.
Won't happen, but on ine hand it'd be funny if the Americans were relegated, while sad on the other.