How Team USA Gets A First Round Bye With An Overtime/Shootout Loss

by Mr. Plank on Feb 20, 2010 8:45 AM PST in Winter Olympics

A win of any manner on Sunday against Canada gets Team USA into the top four, but after that there are multiple solutions possible; it's a damn near swamp to navigate what with goal differential and goals for being tiebreakers. Fear The Fin's standings board is your friendly companion to this post. Use it, peruse it, abuse it.

Once again-- a win on Sunday gets them in. But if Team USA loses in overtime/shootout, therefore finishing with seven points and a +6 goal differential, here are the individual events that need to occur for USA to secure a bye. Only one is needed.

Russia vs. Czech Republic, Sunday @ 12:00 PST

Russia wins in regulation by one goal, and scores one less goal in their game against the Czechs than the United States do against the Canadians. CZE finishes with six points, RUS finishes with seven. USA beats RUS on GF tiebreaker.

The Czech Republic loses in overtime/shootout. RUS finishes with six points, CZE with seven. Team USA beats CZE on GD tiebreaker.

Sweden vs. Finland, Sunday @ 9:00 PST

The game ends in regulation. One team finishes with nine points, the other with six.

Sweden loses in overtime/shootout. FIN finishes with eight points, SWE with seven. Team USA beats SWE on GD tiebreaker.

These seem to be the main events that get Team USA into the top four. If Finland loses in overtime/shootout, they finish with seven points and Sweden finishes with eight; FIN would beat USA on GD. If this occurs, Team USA would need one of the situations outlined in the Russia-Czech game to happen in order to get into the top four.

Go USA.

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How did I know I would see Party in the USA relating to the Olympics somewhere?

Good write-up though, will be interesting to see if the U.S can get a bye without winning.

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by SharksFanEst.1994 on Feb 20, 2010 9:18 AM PST reply actions

Miley "freaking" Cyrus?

The Canadians would not stop playing that song during the snowboard events for every US competitor. It was really annoying. They couldn’t mix in a little Sinatra, or Jay Z, or anyone else really?

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by s0sNe@kYbUtY? on Feb 20, 2010 9:32 AM PST up reply actions

I think we might all prefer to R O C K in the USA

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by CTGray on Feb 20, 2010 11:00 AM PST reply actions

Wow! What a game!

The Swiss-Norway game was the best game I’ve seen yet this Olympics. Back and forth all game. A dude named Vikingstad got a hat trick for Norway. And the Swiss pulled it out in OT with a sick no look pass that was tipped in at the front of the net. Just awesome.

Neither team will be around much longer, but at least they got to put up a memorable game!

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by ZeroIndulgence on Feb 20, 2010 2:34 PM PST reply actions

THIS!

by princessminako on Feb 20, 2010 2:37 PM PST up reply actions

I’ll have to catch the highlights … my dad picked today to meet up for lunch. ugh!

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by ang6666 on Feb 20, 2010 3:05 PM PST up reply actions

Yeah, definitely the best game.

Norge (calling them that instead of Norway since I like it better) looked awesome today and shocked me. I hope this gives both these teams some confidence, as I would love to see some upsets.

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by SharksFanEst.1994 on Feb 20, 2010 3:30 PM PST up reply actions

Unless the US plays them, rofl. But if they end up playing like the Czechs, or Russians…then yeah, upset city, baby!

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by ZeroIndulgence on Feb 20, 2010 5:09 PM PST up reply actions

That game was pretty damn good.

right now, Slovakia is handing Latvia their asses.

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by CTGray on Feb 20, 2010 5:31 PM PST up reply actions

Ineed they are…

Slovakia is really finding its stride lately. They could be really dangerous in the elim rounds.

I’m actually pretty impressed with the men’s hockey tourney. There’s a lotta strong teams.

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by ZeroIndulgence on Feb 20, 2010 6:00 PM PST up reply actions

Definitely.

The margins of defeat aren’t as bad as the women’s and the lowlier teams can still play in some pretty entertaining games.

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by SharksFanEst.1994 on Feb 20, 2010 6:15 PM PST up reply actions

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Kind of a bummer seeing Latvia rolled over. I have a special place in my hockey heart for that country because of Irbe and my absolute favorite Stockton Thunder player Maris Ziedins. We used to have his Team Latvia sweater available in the Arena store. He went to Turin in ’06 and managed to get the only goal for Latvia in a 6-1 loss to Sweden (with a helper from Ozo!).

He rocked. Loved him!

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by SwisherThresher on Feb 20, 2010 6:39 PM PST up reply actions

Ugh, Greisser’s getting worked over pretty good tonight. Given up 3 so far to Belarus. Not that he’s had much help, but he definately looked better against Sweden.

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by ZeroIndulgence on Feb 20, 2010 11:00 PM PST reply actions

Hahaha…as soon as I type this, his team wakes up, scores two within like a minute of one another and ties it up. Goc with the last goal!

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by ZeroIndulgence on Feb 20, 2010 11:02 PM PST up reply actions

Hey look! It’s Doug Wilson! He’s watching Greiss get lit up like a Christmas Tree! Sigh…he’ll never see the ice again :(

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by ZeroIndulgence on Feb 20, 2010 11:12 PM PST reply actions

Meth Squirrel looked slow tonight. Somebody find his dealer!

by ievans on Feb 20, 2010 11:20 PM PST up reply actions

He had like no defensive help for most of the goals…but youre right, he looked slow. And if Germany was going to win, they need Greiss stealing games for them. Germany needs their goalie to make 3 goals stand up…and tonight Greiss was not up to the task. Sad times.

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by ZeroIndulgence on Feb 20, 2010 11:23 PM PST up reply actions

He usually does not do well when he does not face a lot of shots. His stats are much better (like against Sweden) when he faces a more consistent shot load.

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by SharksFanEst.1994 on Feb 20, 2010 11:56 PM PST up reply actions