Canada's ice hockey team defeated China in the third round of the group stage of the Beijing Olympics. The meeting ended with the score 5:0.
Already in the first period, the Canadians have created a solid groundwork, sending three goals into the gates of the Chinese. Goals were scored by Ben Street (3rd), Adam Tambellini (7th) and Eric O'Dell (11th). In the following periods, the Canadian team scored two more goals. First, Kent Johnson (39th) scored, and then Corban Knight (47th).
In the other match of this group, the USA beat Germany 3:2. Patrick Hager opened the scoring in the game already in the 3rd minute, but the Americans quickly bounced back (Stephen Kaempfer scored in the 5th minute), and at the beginning of the second period they took the lead - Matt Nies scored (25th minute). At the start of the third game segment, the advantage of the Americans was strengthened by Nathan Smith, and towards the end of the meeting, Tom Kuenhakl scored an abandoned puck.
The hockey teams of Finland and Sweden made it to the 1/4 finals of the Olympics Olympiad 2022 Thus, the Americans took first place in Quartet A, scoring three wins out of three, and went directly to the 1/4. Canada from the second place went to the 1/8 finals, it lost in the group only to the Americans (2:4).
In addition to the USA, Finland, Russia and Sweden went directly to the 1/4 finals. The rest of the teams will continue to fight in 1/8. So, Canada will compete for a ticket to the quarterfinals with the Chinese, Denmark will play with Latvia, the Czech Republic will face Switzerland, and Slovakia will fight with Germany.
At the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, Canadians found themselves in a similar situation. Then they lost the first place in the group to the US team and could not directly get into the 1/4. However, then the Canadian team became the Olympic champion, beating Germany (8:2), Russia (7:3), Slovakia (3:2) and the USA (3:2) in turn.
The betting company Fonbet believes that the chances of the Canadian team to win gold medals are higher than those of the US team. Bets on the victory of the Canadians are accepted with a coefficient of 6.10, and on the victory of the US team - 7.00.
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