[hwy19man]

Originally Posted by Red John

Get on the Slovenia bandwagon now while you can. 18-1 underdogs to beat Sweden, those are excellent odds. Even a small $5 bet would win almost $100.

Slovenia is having the cinderella tournament right now, Kopitar has picked that team up on his shoulders. The Swedes haven't looked all that impressive despite running the table so far. Slovenia should at least beat the spread of 3.5

Canada should beat Latvia though it probably won't be a blowout. Hopefully they score a few though for confidence's sake though - lots of talk about how they can't score right now.

Americans will blowout the Czechs who are hot garbage at this tournament.

Russia-Finland is too close to call - suspect the Russians get it done perhaps in OT or shootout but Rask will keep it close.

Hopefully we get some crazy quarterfinals!

Yes, check the odds. There can be some bizarre odds that the lottery corporation sets.

I will never forget the Russia-Finland game twelve years ago today! The odds on BCLC for the oddset were 1.05 Russia and 9.05 on Finland with a tie being 5.35. I was shocked when I saw that and with a friend we bet on Finland to win along with USA over Belarus, Sweden over Germany and three other NBA games (Utah over Cleveland, Detroit over Toronto, and a tie on the Trailblazers-Clippers game). Together we did a 28 dollar wager and won $2362.45. The only reason we did that ticket were the ridiculous underdog odds on Finland and they had a good team. Had it been 3.75 or something close to that, I would not have selected the game.