So far so good for me -6 straight wins!!!
Yesterday betsSlovakia -2Norvay +2Belarus MLSunday pick:Russia -1
As far as I know last time Russia lost to Czechs(wc or Olympic games) at 2006 in Torino
in Bronze medal game 0-3
By the way that Olympic tournament Russia started with a loss to Slovaks 3-5 !!! kind of deja vu!
But next game they were extremely good in all aspects and won 5-0 vs Sweden(Sweden became an Olympic Champion that year)
What I mean by that -Russia has all the ability and talent to recover
and bounce back as they did last Olimpics ,and now they have more talented and mature team than in Torino
And you know that will be kind of "national tragedy" for Russia if they'll loose second straight...
Malkin expected to play on the first line with Ovy and Semin
Second line expected Kovy-Datsyuk-Afinogenov
So they made some changes and worked a lot on PP last practice
Nabokov expected in net for Russia
Czechs are good no doubt about it but Russia will win in Regulation(they just will try to avoid that SO lottery)Probably will stay away from Swe_Fin game
Canada- US- as well, just will get the pleasure watching this one with no bets