aside from themselves the biggest challenge for Canada is Russia. Win and we move on. Lose and suffer the indignity of losing being eliminated on our home ice with no medal.
the way I look at it is that germany extra game was what we needed a warm up game for lou and for the team. every team playing today has to play a team that are all favorites to win gold. there is not ONE weak team nor ONE strong team that can be defined over another as better or worse (on paper yes but not on the ice noone has dominated anything)
sweden is in tough, US is in tough, canada is in tough, finland is in tough, russia is in tough, slovakia is in tough, Czech is in tough, swiss is in tough. all now have the play the same number of games to get to the gold. all now are in elimination games. its balls out or go home. luo is ready and able. the forwards are ready and able. the d is ready and able. just hope Babcock makes the right decisions regarding all 3. go canada go