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Blind Gardien · 11-27-2012, 10:18 AM

I don't think there's a problem in saying there are 4 top contenders (Russia, Canada, Sweden, USA) and that any of them could beat any other at basically any level, given the 1-game elimination formats of all the big tournaments. There really isn't any point in narrowing it down further than that IMHO (unless you are the IIHF applying a ranking to tournament pool selections for example).

11-27-2012, 10:18 AM	#4
Blind Gardien *Global Moderator* nexus of the crisis Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Four Winds Bar Country: Posts: 16,816 vCash: 500	I don't think there's a problem in saying there are 4 top contenders (Russia, Canada, Sweden, USA) and that any of them could beat any other at basically any level, given the 1-game elimination formats of all the big tournaments. There really isn't any point in narrowing it down further than that IMHO (unless you are the IIHF applying a ranking to tournament pool selections for example).