GDT: Women's | Quarterfinals | Russia vs Switzerland| 10:10 PM

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Russia Vs Switzerland
10:10 PM ET
Quarterfinals

Switzerland			Russia
No.	Pos.	Name		No.	Pos.	Name
1	G	Janine Alder		1	G	Valeria Tarakanova
3	F	Sarah Forster		2	D	Angelina Goncharenko
7	F	Lara Stalder		10	F	Lyudmila Belyakova
8	D	Nicole Gass		11	D	Liana Ganeyeva
9	D	Shannon Sigrist		12	D	Yekaterina Lobova
11	D	Sabrina Zollinger		13	D	Nina Pirogova
12	F	Lisa Rüedi		15	F	Valeria Pavlova
13	F	Sara Benz		17	F	Fanuza Kadirova
14	F	Evelina Raselli		18	F	Olga Sosina
15	F	Monika Waidacher		22	D	Maria Batalova
16	F	Nina Waidacher		27	D	Anastasia Chistyakova
18	F	Tess Allemann		28	F	Diana Kanayeva
19	D	Christine Meier		31	G	Nadezhda Aleksandrova
21	D	Laura Benz		34	D	Svetlana Tkachyova
22	D	Livia Altmann		43	F	Yekaterina Likhachyova
23	D	Nicole Bullo		44	F	Alyona Starovoitova
24	F	Isabel Waidacher		59	F	Yelena Dergachyova
25	F	Alina Müller		68	F	Alevtina Shtaryova
26	F	Dominique Rüegg		73	F	Viktoria Kulishova
27	D	Stefanie Wetli		76	D	Yekaterina Nikolayeva
31	G	Andrea Brändli		88	F	Yekaterina Smolina
41	G	Florence Schelling		92	G	Nadezhda Morozova
88	F	Phoebe Stänz		94	F	Yevgenia Dyupina
				97	F	Anna Shokhina

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[BladesofSTEELwFIRE]

I see the Korea women 's team has one game left on the 18th. Who are they playing & what network is the game on in the U.S.? Sorry for being in the wrong thread but I don't see a thread for this.

 

[BladesofSTEELwFIRE]

How is Russia in the quarterfinals when they didn't win a single game & only scored ONE goal the entire tournament??

 

[Zamuz]

How is Russia in the quarterfinals when they didn't win a single game & only scored ONE goal the entire tournament??

The structure is pretty bizarre in women's tournament.

The top-4 teams are in 1 group (CAN, USA, FIN, RUS) and the rest are in the other group (SWE, SUI, KOR, JPN). Reason being that there won't be similar games that was in Vancouver 2010 when Canada beat Slovakia 18-0 and all kinds of other blowouts by these teams.

top-2 teams of the first group advance to semi-finals, bottom-2 advance to quarter-finals facing the top-2 teams of the second group. So all top-4 teams will advance automatically.

 

[Atas2000]

A tournament is a tournament. 6-2 Russia. Russia advances.

 

[kingsholygrail]

2-1 for the white cross. They have a solid goalie.

 

[DEVILS130]

I went to bed at 2-2. Can't believe this outcome...Switzerland is a much better team

 

[ViD]

I went to bed at 2-2. Can't believe this outcome...Switzerland is a much better team

Based on what ?

 

[RossiyaSport]

Yet another tournament where the RU girls go further than Sochi.

Like I have been saying all along theres a lot of good talent on the RU team The only 'older' core player is really Sosina who isn't 26 yet. Theres a lot of good talents developing in the junior team and pee wee.

 

[Kyndig]

Based on what ?

Exactly. Switzerland got to pad their stats against Korea and the Swiss honestly looked worse than Japan. Sweden has regressed or not progressed at all and got smoked by Finland, the weakest team in group A.

Meanwhile Russia got smoked by everyone in group A but anyone in group B would've had it worse.

Idky but oddly happy the Russian women won, I'll be cheering for them in the bronze medal game assuming CAN/USA win.

 

[Urbanskog]

Sweden has regressed or not progressed at all and got smoked by Finland, the weakest team in group A.

You genuinely think that Finland is weaker than the OAR?

 

[Kyndig]

You genuinely think that Finland is weaker than the OAR?

Lol no. I meant Finland is the weakest after Russia but I worded it poorly or as an assumption as I said Finland steamrolled Russia.

 

[Urbanskog]

Lol no. I meant Finland is the weakest after Russia but I worded it poorly or as an assumption as I said Finland steamrolled Russia.

Well that goes without saying, the US and Canada are so far ahead the rest.

 

[Firsov99]

How is Russia in the quarterfinals when they didn't win a single game & only scored ONE goal the entire tournament??

Firstly, it's the Olympics format where no teams are eliminated in the group stage. Secondly, it's because Russia had to play the top three teams in the world in pool A. Pool B was incredibly weak, that's why Switzerland and Sweden got destroyed in the quarters.

 

[Firsov99]

Well that goes without saying, the US and Canada are so far ahead the rest.

And it has been like this since 1990. Women's hockey tournaments are just about the US-Canada games. Boring.

 

[BladesofSTEELwFIRE]

Firstly, it's the Olympics format where no teams are eliminated in the group stage. Secondly, it's because Russia had to play the top three teams in the world in pool A. Pool B was incredibly weak, that's why Switzerland and Sweden got destroyed in the quarters.

Yeah, that's it but I didn't know ALL teams move on to the playoff, single elimination round.

 

[BladesofSTEELwFIRE]

And it has been like this since 1990. Women's hockey tournaments are just about the US-Canada games. Boring.

True but they need the other teams to have a tournament. Do you suggest ONLY the U.S. & Canada show up & go straight to the Gold medal game??

 

[Firsov99]

Do you suggest ONLY the U.S. & Canada show up & go straight to the Gold medal game??

Of course I wouldn't suggest something like this. And I certainly wouldn't blame Canada and US for being so darn better then the rest. It's not their fault. And I am not sure who to blame exactly for this disparity (between US/Canada and the rest of the world) But it's not good for the sport's popularity growth.