Can You Predict the Winners in the Olympic Hockey Pool Championship?

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A new PF hockey pool championship has been launched in conjunction with the Olympic hockey tournament, featuring 13 matches for participants to predict outcomes. Players must fill out a form indicating their predictions for each match, including the tournament winner and total goals scored. The rules specify that only results after regulation time count, and participants can edit their predictions until the pool closes one hour before the first game. The discussion highlights excitement for the tournament, with various predictions and banter among participants, including a focus on the performance of teams like Canada, Sweden, and Russia. As the tournament progresses, participants share their thoughts on game outcomes, player performances, and the overall excitement of the event, with some expressing surprise at unexpected results, such as Latvia's strong showing against the US. The thread culminates in congratulating the winner of the pool, PerennialII, who successfully predicted the most match outcomes.
  • #51
Actually Lidstrom won World Championship gold -91, if that counts...

Time for a dream team:

A. Niittymaki (Finland)

N. Lidstrom (Sweden)
Z. Chara (Slovakia)

S. Paulsson (Sweden)
T. Sellane (Finland)
E. Malkin (Russia)
 
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  • #52
dream team ...

Goal: Antero Niittymaki
Defence: Kimmo Timonen, Teppo Numminen
Forward: Teemu Selanne, Saku Koivu, Aleksandr Ovechkin

... would fly even if replaced Timonen with Lidstrom/Salo and Ovechkin with Malkin/Lehtinen/Peltonen. Perhaps a somewhat colored selection...
 
  • #53
Facit: 22X 12X 212 X122

Tournament winner: Sweden

Number of goals: 67


Results:

1. PerennialII, 7
2. BobG, 5
3. ek, 4
4. EL , 3 (one "X")
5. Check & George Jones, 3 (61 and 73 goals respectively)
7. Just some guy, 2


Congratualtions to PerennialII, the PF olympic hockey pool champion!

(At least you won this competition...:-p)
 
  • #54
Perennial,
I have a serious opinion that Lidstrom SERIOUSLY benefitted and turned into the player he is today because he played for so long with Paul Coffee. So, in a way, Canada was responsible for the Swede's gold medal.
 
  • #55
Thanks EL, got to make myself a puck like avatar, perhaps one with 'CH' in it ... next time the guy scoring the goal will be Pitkanen ... :-p ...

Yeah, Lidstrom has been enjoying good company throughout his career ... although Finns as a whole play so Canadian like hockey (+Canadians have their priorities in this respect about right :wink: ) have a tough time blaming them for teaching the thick skulled Swedes a few tricks, although many hockey 'fanatics' here are hoping for a match between Dallas & Detroit in the playoffs to eliminate the latter one as retribution...
 
  • #56
It's a no brainer as to who would walk away from that one:-p
 
  • #57
:smile: Found your "inner Swede" then...
 
  • #58
In that case, Stars would only have one chance to win: By putting Johan Hedberg as keeper...:wink:
 
  • #59
while ago was completely oblivious Hedberg was in Dallas ... not 100% convinced either of these teams has a decent playoff goalie, if remember anything right Turco turned into quite a hoover against Colorado last time around. Well, it is anyways pretty obvious that Calgary is going to finish what they failed to previously. Only need 4 goals in 4 games :-p ...
 

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