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IIHF Worlds Semifinals: Canada vs Latvia Betting Odds and Prediction, Team USA Outlook in the 2023 Medal Round
Should it be hard to be "surprised" at a tournament like the 2023 IIHF Worlds? After all, the cities of Riga and Tampere are hosting an event to which Team USA and Team Sweden recruited about a dozen combined NHL skaters, for which the Red Machine of Russia is banned from participating, and in which career Division 1 squads like Hungary have toiled in the round-robin. In … [Read more...] about IIHF Worlds Semifinals: Canada vs Latvia Betting Odds and Prediction, Team USA Outlook in the 2023 Medal Round
IIHF World Championship Quarterfinal Previews, Odds, and Picks: Latvia Surprise Highlights Field of Medal Contenders
This season's World Championship was not supposed to make a media splash of any kind. NHL player recruiting is still a hard road for national teams following COVID-19, and the next potential Winter Olympics involving the NHL's superstars won't come until 2026. Yet with the NHL's most popular brands having lost playoff series to post-1980s expansion teams (and the league's new … [Read more...] about IIHF World Championship Quarterfinal Previews, Odds, and Picks: Latvia Surprise Highlights Field of Medal Contenders
IIHF Worlds: 2023 Men’s World Championship Team Previews, NHL Player Tracker, Gold Medal Odds, Team USA Forecast and Predictions
It's good to be able to pour some water in the haters' champagne. The Year of Our Lord 2023 sets up to be a typical cycle of ignorance and disdain for international pond shinny, as Team USA sends what could be the Yanks' worst team of a generation to the upcoming IIHF World Championship in Tampere and Riga. National teams whose top talent pools are flatly and inextricably tied … [Read more...] about IIHF Worlds: 2023 Men’s World Championship Team Previews, NHL Player Tracker, Gold Medal Odds, Team USA Forecast and Predictions
IIHF Women’s World Championship: 2023 Group A Preview, Projected Gold Medal Favorite, and Team USA Predictions
The terms "pandemic" and "COVID-19" will - thank goodness - be in use far less often when the IIHF's next big event faces-off in Canada, 2023's IIHF Women's World Championship beginning this Wednesday, April 5th. Though that doesn't mean the after-effects of 2020 and 2021's disruptions (and 2023's grim politics) aren't still glaringly evident in the ice hockey federation's … [Read more...] about IIHF Women’s World Championship: 2023 Group A Preview, Projected Gold Medal Favorite, and Team USA Predictions
IIHF Women’s World Championship: 2022 Preview, Storylines, Gold-Medal Odds, and Forecast
I spend volunteer hours covering High School sports in the autumn, and it's strange that it's one of my least sports-savvy friends who came up with the perfect reason why. I was telling her about the painted autumn leaves on grass gridirons, the sloppy marching bands that somehow sound just fine from a distant parking lot, and the we-did-it-our-way branding of prep teams like … [Read more...] about IIHF Women’s World Championship: 2022 Preview, Storylines, Gold-Medal Odds, and Forecast
2022 IIHF World Championship: 16 Team Preview, Gold Medal Odds, Roster Updates, and Picks
Sports are like politics in that if a subject is careful to keep her opinion from getting pigeonholed, there's always someone to come along and do it anyway. Take the last dozen years of American football as example. If you think Tim Tebow and Colin Kaepernick were misused, misunderstood, and brave fore-runners of Lamar Jackson's powerful modern-day NFL option game, then you … [Read more...] about 2022 IIHF World Championship: 16 Team Preview, Gold Medal Odds, Roster Updates, and Picks
Beijing Olympics: Best of FanDuel and Bovada Odds and Gold Medal Picks for Weeks 2 and 3
Stop the presses, but NBC - kicking and screaming - has actually taken some positive steps in broadcasting the 2022 Winter Olympics. For one thing, NBC anchor Mike Tirico - he himself bagging a checkered past of sexual harassment scandals - has been instructed to address the controversies of the Beijing Olympics right out in the open, including the Peng Shuai mystery, the … [Read more...] about Beijing Olympics: Best of FanDuel and Bovada Odds and Gold Medal Picks for Weeks 2 and 3
2022 Winter Olympics: Women’s Ice Hockey Preview, News, Gold Medal Odds, and Forecast
There's that old wrestling angle in which 2 iconic grapplers are given disparate-sized trophies on TV, leading to harsh words, hard feelings, and (eventually) a top-dollar PPV match. Because sports blogs communicate by-omission more than we communicate by addition (i.e. a tiny betting tip on an upcoming game signifies less event-prestige than a 3000-word Super Bowl preview) it … [Read more...] about 2022 Winter Olympics: Women’s Ice Hockey Preview, News, Gold Medal Odds, and Forecast