Why am I not surprised to see Sweden play 3 out of 4 games in Niagara
Oh and Sweden-Canada 10pm on New Year's eve here, safe to say there might be a good reason to drink - for various reasons..
It's always based off last year's results...
1 USA, 4 Switzerland, 5 Finland, 8 Slovakia, 9 Germany
2 Canada, 3 Sweden, 6 Russia, 7 Czech Rep, 10 Norway
December 30th:
Slovakia - Switzerland in HSBC
Sweden - Czech Republic in Dwyer
Both start at 3:00 PM ET.
Can anyone explain why?
We're going with size this year so we can intimidate the Russians and the Swedes because they don't like the physical game. Pretty good strategy which should get us up until we play the Yanks in the cross over game.
Wow was that brilliant insight
http://www.iihf.com/channels1011/wm20/schedule.html
On the schedule there are only two games for the quarterfinals but in a quarterfinal there are used to be 8 teams and 4 games as I know. Can someone explain why there are only two games for the QFs on the schedule? (Maybe the first of each group is immediately qualified for the semifinals??)
there are 4 games scheduled that day, so they had to split them between the 2 arenas. 2 games in the 3:00 timeslot and 2 in the 7:00 timeslot.
what's to explain?
All the non host pool games (ie. Pool A) games are played at the co host arena (ie. Niagara). This year is an exception since Canada is not in the same pool as the USA. The organizers realize Canada is the REAL host of the tournament so the Canada games are in HSBC since they will all sell out. All non-Canadian Pool A games are played in Niagara.
Last year all pool B games (Canada was pool A) where played in Regina while the pool A games were played in Saskatoon. Next year the non Canada pool games will be played in Edmonton and the Canada pool games and medal round games will be in Calgary (sorry Edmonton).
Let's say Canada wins against Sweden (Just saying).. Who would they play in the semis? The #2 in their group vs. #3 in the other group or #3 in their group vs. #2 in the other group?
Also, the group leaders can't play each other in the semi-finals, correct?
If Canada wins, Sweden would play the #3 in the other pool (Switzerland most likely) and the winner would play the USA (presumably at this point).
In this scenario, Canada would play the winner of #2 (Finland) vs #3 (Russia/Czech).