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3 assists for Lucas Raymond in Sweden's 5-1 victory over Latvia.

Bought a ticket for Montreal at Detroit in March. Went to a Pistons home game in December, but this will be my first Wings game at LCA in a few years.

The three play-in games have had predictable winners: Germany, Switzerland and Czechia. But the Czechs struggled too much against Denmark, only won 3-2 with a scoreless 3rd period and the Danes buzzing around the final few minutes.

Hey!

Whew, I was afraid Canada's QF was going to be 6am ET/3am PT. 7:40am PT is more manageable.

#1 Canada #2 USA #3 Slovakia #4 Finland #5 Switzerland #6 Germany #7 Sweden #8 Czechia #9 Denmark #10 Latvia #11France #12 Italy

And was made to look silly in it.

5-0 USA, they're halfway there but only have 12 1/2 minutes to do it. Can they make it interesting?

Draisaitl and Stutzle arguing with each other.

Larkin stopped point blank while USA was shorthanded.

Werenski shoots it through Seider's for the game's opening goal in the final 10 seconds of the 1st goal. USA 1 Germany 0 after 1. If the Americans win by 10 goals, they win Group C and get the #1 seed overall. If the Americans win or get an overtime loss, they win Group C and get the #2 seed overall. If the American lose in regulation, they finish second in Group C and get the #5 seed overall and would have to play Italy in a qualifying game to make the quarter-final.

I can't access the site on my iPhone today. A video clip ad pops up and then when it is done just stays on the screen. Only button is to rewatch the ad, which gets you no further ahead. No issue when on my PC.

Thomas Harley was -2 for Canada today in the 10-2 win, lol.

Canada leading 10-2 with 9 different goal scorers. Goaltending is the only possible weak link, the rest of the team is flawless.

Team Canada taking care of business vs France through 2 periods. Up 6-1. 33-7 in shots. Celebrini with a penalty shot goal.

Speaking of college baseball.

In 1945, the Tigers had a makeup doubleheader in St. Louis against the Browns. Only 5,000 people showed up. The Tigers had a 1 game lead over Washington and Washington had already finished their season. So the Tigers needed to win at least one game of the doubleheader to win the AL pennant; otherwise there would be a tiebreaking playoff. The Tigers entered the top of the 9th trailing 3-2 but a 1-out Hank Greenberg grand slam gave the Tigers a 6-3 lead. The Browns were retired in order in the bottom of the 9th and the Tigers won the pennant. The second game of the doubleheader was now unnecessary and was not played.

The big prize up for grabs is the #1 overall seed. The #2 seed overall seed almost certainly will face Sweden in the quarter-finals, due to Sweden slipping to the #7 overall seed today. Canada has a +2 goal difference over USA. Canada plays France, which is an easier matchup than Germany is for the Americans, but USA has the advantage of playing after the Canada-France game has already finished. All USA needs to do to win its group - and thus be either the #1 overall or #2 overall seed - is beat Germany or at least get the game to overtime. A German win in regulation would open the door for the Germans and more remotely Latvia to finish ahead of USA in the group.

Team USA keeping it close, only losing 2–1 after 1. The Americans can still make a game of it if they have a strong two periods.

Team USA was putting up a good fight against Denmark, holding the Danes to a 1-1 tie midway through the 1st. But a long shot goal has given the Denmark the lead, was just a matter of time.

Slovakia celebrates after the loss as they will win the group, Finland second, Sweden third if Finland beats Italy in regulation as expected. All three would finish tied at 2W 1L. Decided by goal differential among the games played between Slovakia, Sweden and Finland (so excludes the goal differential in those three teams' games against Italy). If Italy takes Finland to OT, it will be a 2-way tie for 1st between Sweden and Slovakia and Sweden would win the group on head to head, Slovakia 2nd, Finland 3rd. https://x.com/daniel_amoia/status/2022669951073456235?s=61&t=don8lQTnTq5FKXq14p2GMw Meanwhile the Kings’ Kevin Fiala had season-injury surgery after suffering an injury yesterday playing for Switzerland. https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/article/switzerlands-fiala-stretchered-off-against-canada/

Lucas Raymond with an Olympic goal. 5-3 Sweden with 39 seconds. A last minute goal by Slovakia looks to be huge due to goal differential.