It's fitting these two teams meet for the right to go to the gold medal team since these two rosters are gold, but the teams aren't. Team play has been ugly for each, with only moments of unity.
Hopefully one of the two groups of guys starts playing well together as a team. they have enough talent to dominate. Which team will put it all together for a game?
The teams which gave Russia the most trouble had active blueliners and good goaltending. Canada has demonstrated neither in this tourney (only in this tourney). So guys like Kovalchuk, Afinogenov, Yashin, etc might succeed on one-on-one surges. Threats from each line when facing a weak defense.
So I predict 6-3 Russia.
... unless a Canadian goalie stands on his head or half of the Canuck d-men stay on the bench!
I think the Sweden-Czech game will have the better hockey, but as a Canadian the Russia game has prominence. Come on boys. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER.
I like to see teams doing all the little things right, and only the Czechs have been doing that consistently, IMO.