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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5668214, member: 1969"] (MOD - If you think this should be merged with other thread, than feel free to do it... I'm just thinking this particular event might generate enough interest on its own) Some surprising results on Day 1. Slovakia beat Finland. Sweden beat Italy, but by a score of only 5-2. And the Italians do not have good players. I'm thinking the gambling line was probably something like Sweden -7 (I'm guessing). The expectation was that Canada, US, Sweden, Finland would get the 4 bye's after preliminaries, but that may not happen. The other problem with Finland losing is it could damage their seed, resulting in them being a seed around 7 or 8. And if you are Canada or the USA and are the #1 or #2 seed after the preliminaries, you were hoping not to get Finland in the quarterfinals. And if they are a #7 or #8 seed you are going to get them. [/QUOTE]