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The Olympic hockey odds have Team Russia and Team Canada in the Olympic men’s ice hockey gold medal game. The Canadians are 9 to 5 favorites to win the gold and the Russians are 11 to 4 favorites to be there as well. But Team Canada needed a shoot-out to beat Switzerland and then got beaten by the Americans. With their goaltending in question, Canada will not be playing in the gold medal game.

Sweden is a 5 to 1 favorite to win gold, but they lack the toughness needed to win in a championship game. They hammered their way to a win over Finland in the preliminary round, and the Fins are a talented team, but Finland cannot compare to a beating by the Russians or the Americans.

Team USA is a 7 to 2 favorite to win the gold, but those odds will change as the tournament progresses. Team USA is a gritty bunch of defensemen and a talented corps of forwards backed up by one of the best goalies in the world in Ryan Miller. The key to the Americans’ success is that you never know who will score, and you never know how they will do it.

The gold medal game for the 2010 Olympic men’s ice hockey tournament will be one of the best gold medal games played in a long time. It will be better than the Team USA versus Canada match-up in 2002 or the Finland versus Sweden game in 2006. It will pit the speed and toughness of Russians Alexander Ovechkin and Alexander Semin against the tough defensive play of Americans Jack Johnson and Brooks Orpick. It will be an epic goaltending battle between the two best goalies in the world; Ryan Miller and Evgeni Nabokov. It will be a hockey game that no hockey fan in the world will want to miss.

Pick: Team USA versus Team Russia