Welcome back! How was everyone’s Olympic break? We at the Burgundy Blog tried to keep busy with some Olympic coverage and trade speculations, as well as stressing ourselves out over that Gold Medal game between Canada and USA. The Avalanche, on the other hand, all spent their time doing things to take it easy. In all honesty, they deserved the break. Especially net minder Craig Anderson.
Welcome back to our regular coverage of the Colorado Avalanche. It was a long, strange trip through them there Olympics and needless to say I’ve written some very long winded diatribes, which I will spare you here. Really, the point of this article is to expose you to the roster situation for tonight’s game against the loathed Detroit Red Wings.
As far as I’m concerned, this game basically determines the outcome of the entire 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I know there is ice dancing, bobsledding, nordic skiing, terrible Team USA curling, and even downhill skiing. But to me, this is all that matters. And in an event mirroring that of the Women’s Tournament, it all came down to USA vs. Canada – the rematch.
In a closely paired, back and forth bout between the young and unappreciated Team USA and the typically tough to knock out Switzerland, the Red, White and Blue came out victorious, moving on to the Semifinal round against the winner of Finland vs. the Czech Republic.
So Tuesday was filled with the first round of elimination games for the 2010 Winter Olympics Men’s Ice Hockey tournament in Vancouver. Some would argue that the games didn’t matter until this point, but those would probably be teams that didn’t win any games (Latvia, Norway) and didn’t have a bye to the next roun
In what was one close matched, hard fought showdown between 8th seed Switzerland and 9th seed Belarus, the Swiss came out on top. They move on to the 2010 Winter Olympics quarterfinals to challenge Team USA and Colorado Avalanche forward Paul Stastny in game 1.
With the 2010 Winter Olympics Men’s Hockey Tournament preliminary rounds finished, it is time we take a look at the standings and the overall larger playoff picture. There are a few surprises this year regarding the “Super Six” of Canada, Russia, Sweden, Finland, the USA, and the Czech Republic.
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