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Event: IIHF WORLD HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS 2021
Date: 21.05.2021
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You can argue that the Yanks drew the easier round-robin pool, possibly making the United States an OK underdog bet to win Group B at (+450). But speedy rookies tend to run out of steam by the 2nd week of the Worlds, and Team USA’s lineup has more in common with the also-ran U.S. Olympic squads of 1984–1992 than a contender for gold or silver.
Against a very limited number of NHL players in 2021, with the top 2 KHL scorers sitting out, the same type of squad must be considered a true favorite in the medal round. Besides, Finland’s drawn an easier lot than Russia, with a gimme against Kazakhstan to help the team gear-up on the maiden weekend of Worlds faceoffs. Marko Anttila, who dominated the GMG against Canada in ’19, is back for 2021, and defenseman Olli Määttä gives the Lions 1 more active NHL player than the previous team.
Team Canada’s roster looks like a Team USA roster from the World Championship circa Y2K, and that’s not a compliment. The Habs are already inconsistent at recruiting the best goaltenders available for the Worlds; this time Hockey Canada has dipped into the AHL to welcome 21-year-old Michael DiPietro.
Only 5 NHL professionals are currently practicing with the Team Canada defense corps, and Adam Henrique could be asked to lead the way on offense after producing a meager 21 points in 45 games and going on waivers this season. Michael Bunting will crash the net with all kinds of motor, but the Maple Leaf doesn’t have 3 forward lines’ worth of him. Latvia is not an ideal opponent for Friday’s debut in Riga, and things could go downhill if the hosts score an upset.
Overpriced is overpriced, but the sub-3/1 odds on Canada to win the World Championship feel more like charity, a souvenir for lonely Canuck fans of the international game. Canada’s (+100000) odds to finish 5th or worse and fail to reach the medal round is a potential windfall at penny-risk. What happened last time Hockey Canada couldn’t get 20+ established NHL guys for a clash of national teams?
The Finnish national team is one of the most adapted teams to the World Cup coronavirus. In 2019, Jukka Jalonen led a modestly-named squad to victory in the tournament, as if he knew that in two years’ time NHL representatives would not want to go to any of the teams, it was too hard a season for everyone. That said, the Finns have both the reigning World Champions and the best hockey players playing in Europe.
In Group B, the only real rivals for the Finns are the two North American teams, which are very unassuming. Against this backdrop, the Suomi representatives certainly don’t look any worse; at the same time, the Canadians and Americans generally aren’t the fiercest in the world forums, and skill alone will be difficult to win anything on. That’s why a bet on Finland’s win in Group B at around 3.70 is worth a closer look.
UK coach Peter Russell has a canny formula for survival at the top level, and it includes A) practicing way in advance with a cohesive team of native professionals, without regard for transplants or English-Canadian players, and B) allowing Team GB to play loose-and-easy hockey against NHL and KHL stalwarts, helping to avoid injuries and build confidence against the best goalies.
It could be a much simpler task to avoid relegation against a weaker field in 2021, but the British are no use as a futures bet of any kind due to the team’s strategy of conceding offense to the IIHF’s aristocrats. Britain won’t pull off many Worlds upsets because the squad is not designed for that task.
Britain’s return to the top-level of World Championship events in 2019 was a joy to behold. England had a huge hand in inventing modern pond shinny after all. Things looked bleak in what was essentially a “relegation game” against France when the hockey Bleus took a sizable lead. Then came the coolest comeback of the most-recent IIHF Worlds.
The Belarus roster is chock-full of KHL veterans, a precious commodity in a tournament in which Kontinental Hockey League skaters and goalies make up the real backbone of the field. But because of an unlucky draw, the Belarusians are not a worthwhile addition to a “platoon” of underdogs to invest in for the 2021 Worlds.
The team’s old Russian style won’t tend to produce goals against the methodical defense of Switzerland, Russia, Sweden et al. World Championship upstarts need at least 1 big upset to earn a Q-Final berth, and Slovakia’s likely slow-motion takedown of Friday’s (+140) underdogs will set a tone for Belarus’ tough road ahead
Team Slovakia’s entry roster includes only 2 (young) skaters from the world’s 2 dominant hockey leagues, Marian Studenic of the New Jersey Devils and KHL forward Adam Liska. But don’t count-out the Slovaks, another team of well-prepared European club players who play in almost every World Championship they’re invited to. Experience will count for a lot in an event without many superstars streaking around. Slovakia does begin the Worlds with 2 games it should win, faceoffs vs Belarus on Friday and then Great Britain on Sunday.
The Danes make another amazing top-3 sleeper wager at 50/1 odds. Here’s a team that’s world-class on at least 3 out of 4 forward lines, yet Team Denmark doesn’t necessarily rely on its NHLers since an equal number of the squad’s playmaking aces skate full-time in the KHL, Finland, or Sweden.
One rational reason for Denmark’s long odds is that its vaunted major-league depth chart is exceptionally thin this time around, and San Jose Sharks newcomer Alexander True may turn out to have the most jump in his skates in Group Stage. Still, in a tournament for which circumstances have whittled big-shots down to size, the Danes are worth adding to a gambler’s low-risk stable of possible Cinderella teams.
Holy heck, what’s not to like about Team Switzerland at 25/1 odds? Switzerland has the loyal services of 2 of the best 10 non-NHL players in the world in GK Leonardo Genoni and defenseman Raphael Diaz, and will ice an NHL contingent that’s got “quality over quantity” written all over it.
Don’t be surprised if Nico Hischier, already a captain in New Jersey in spite of tender years, leads the Worlds in scoring at some point before or after June 1st. The Swiss have won 2 recent silver medals at the IIHF Worlds against stronger brackets of 16. Team Switzerland is a wonderful (+250) underdog to upset Sweden in its 2nd Group A faceoff, after which we can expect Las Vegas and London lines on the Swiss to begin shrinking.
5-to-1 odds on Eisgenossen to finish top-3 is a jaw-dropping gambling market, kept dark-horse long by action from NHL chauvinists who think journeyman North American pros can out-play Europe’s absolute best. 9 out of 10 outcomes have proven that concept wrong over the years.
IIHF pundits have often chatted-up the “up and coming” Czech Republic over the last few years, but competition is fierce among top-10 ice hockey nations. Success has failed to materialize in the Men’s medal round, and the brand hasn’t scored, goaltended, or “checked” its way to a podium at the World Championships since 2012.
The Czechs have secured the services of several exciting NHL youngsters like Jakub Vrána, but CZE’s relative inexperience is underscored by Filip Hronek getting handed the team captaincy at 23 y/o. Czech supporters will hope KHL netminder Simon Hrubec is this year’s version of Kevin Lankinen.
Come hell or high COVID-19 rates, the Swedes have managed to get some NHL playmakers to Riga. Adrian Kempe starred at the Worlds late in the 2010s and returns as a 24-year-old, joined by Richard Rakell and 2 full front lines of NHLers. However, Tre-Kronor’s blue line — and goal crease — will be manned exclusively (at least going by the entry-roster) by KHL and SHL players.
Sweden’s junior ranks are a pipeline to the National Hockey League and its minor-league affiliates like no other country outside of North America, and its European club pros are almost 100% guys who were looked at by NHL scouts and didn’t have the skills to garner a shot.
Bovada odds-managers could have mixed-up Russia’s IIHF Worlds bid with the nation’s upcoming Winter Olympic incarnation, in which another wrist-slapping measure from the IOC will obligate Team Russia to compete as “Russian Federation” athletes under a different flag, with everyone from journalists to announcers made to comply with the charade.
Russia is already adapting its jerseys to Federation insignias as of the 2021 IIHF Worlds, but the IIHF website refers to the team as “Russia,” and there don’t seem to be as many branding restrictions that apply this time around. Punishing Team Russia for its sins, real or imaginary, is more of the IOC’s fetish than the International Ice Hockey Federation’s.
Russia has successfully recruited exactly 2 skaters over 29 years old to play at the Worlds (sizable forwards Anton Burdasov and Evgeni Timkin) but has avoided having to put any teenage and lower-division prospects on the team. In fact, the Red Machine will be icing a formidable defense corps that includes longtime wish-list NHLer Ivan Provorov and Artyom Zub of the Ottawa Senators, who scored 13 goals in 55 games in his last season on large ice rinks.
Russia is another excellent pick to allow the least goals in Group Stage. The problem is that again, top KHL scorers like Vadim Shipachyov are sitting out the World Championship. Mikhail Grigorenko leads a tiny group of NHL forwards that could number as little as 2–3 players throughout the tournament, but they’ll still be tasked with leading the squad on the attack.
