"Official" 2010 Winter Olympics thread

[Skeletor]

Well, there's always one team that gets it a bit easier than the others - for once it was Finland. About Finland getting to the final 4 easily... think about it for a moment: there are exactly seven top hockey nations in the world. There just isn't that many different teams to play against. Of course one option would be to only have the top 8 countries playing, and those teams would have a bit longer "regular season" before going to the playoffs.

About Slovakia; they won Russia and Sweden, lost to Czechs and Finland. I'm not sure if they "deserve" it that much more than we did, anyway. And if you wanna talk about deserve, look at the previous olympics in 2006: on the road to the final, Finland won Canada, Czechs, USA and Russia. Sweden won USA and Czechs, lost to Russia and Slovakia. How's that for fair :p

[kaasupoltin]

Yeah I'm totally with you. But I'm just saying that I think Slovakia did a far better job in this tournament than Finland and kinda "fought their way through". Beating Russia and Sweden is a pretty hard job for a team like Slovakia.

And yeah, Torino 2006 was great from our point of view even though we lost the final game. But nothing's "fair" when it comes to Finland vs. Sweden