Olympic Hockey Playoff Predictions

The Round Robin stage is over and now it turns into a one and done tournament. Because you lose one game and you are done! The Men's Playoff Qualifier gets ready to start at 3pm PST time in Vancouver at the 2010 Olympic Winter games and Belarus vs. Switzerland are ready to get the show started.

Bookmaker.com has released their lines for Tuesday’s playoff games and they are basically telling the betting public, we have 3 easy wins and 1 coin flip game between Belarus and Switzerland.

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Ron Raymond is one of Canada’s top hockey handicappers and he has released his hockey predictions for Tuesday, February 23, 2010. Ron feels the Canadian Olympic team needs to shorten their bench and find a way to double shift the best hockey player in the world in Sidney Crosby.

How can you let the best player in the tournament take to the ice every 5th shift and expect to win? Furthermore, Babcock has told his team and management they will go with Luongo and basically given up on their future hall of fame goalie. Ron feels if you’re going to pull Brodeur, then go with a goalie who has won something and put the kid in nets and go with the guy who won the last Stanley Cup and put in Fleury.

Here are the current consensus from the hockey bettors at Hockeypicks.com

OLYMPIC ICE HOCKEY ODDS

Game Date: Feb 23
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Puck Drop: 15:00 PM

• 1 BELARUS +1-120 o5EV
• 2 SWITZERLAND -1EV u5-120

Hockeypicks.com Consensus: Belarus 45% Switzerland 55%
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Ron's Prediction: Belarus 3 Switzerland 2

Puck Drop: 19:30 PM

• 3 GERMANY +4½+105 o6½-120
• 4 CANADA -4½-125 u6½EV

Hockeypicks.com Consensus: Germany 24% Canada 76%
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Ron's Prediction: Germany 1 Canada 5

Puck Drop: 22:00 PM

• 5 LATVIA +3½-120 o6½+120
• 6 CZECH REPUBLIC -3½EV u6½-140

Hockeypicks.com Consensus: Latvia 34% Czech Republic 66%
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Ron's Prediction: Latvia 1 Czech republic 5

Puck Drop: 24:00 PM

• 7 NORWAY +3½-115 o6½+120
• 8 SLOVAKIA -3½-105 u6½-140

Hockeypicks.com Consensus: Norway 37% Slovakia 63%
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Ron's Prediction: Norway 2 Slovakia 4