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Originally Posted by Itse
It was a nothing game, both teams played like it, the Finnish team has practiced and played together for four weeks, Canada hasn't. Plus Jukka Jalonen is one of the all time greats of Finnish coaching, and this is the team he picked. Its only "the worst team ever" if you think coaching and practice time doesn't matter at all.
So it's only a "huge upset" if you ignore absolutely everything.
It'll be an actual upset if this happens in the games that matter.
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Yeah, if you look it that way, every game is a nothing game before the quarterfinals anyway, but the so called "experts" gave no chance to Finland at all, so it's kind of an upset.