{"id":161,"date":"2010-02-24T09:57:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T14:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/?p=161"},"modified":"2010-02-24T14:45:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T19:45:58","slug":"2010-olympic-mens-hockey-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/2010-olympic-mens-hockey-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Olympic Men&#8217;s Hockey Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"thumbnail\"><a href=\"http:\/\/skitch.com\/glenesharp\/ns71t\/skitched-20100224-095252\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20100224-ckxupmsdi8xekgwf2hk3gexy2e.preview.jpg\" alt=\"skitched-20100224-095252.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>After the preliminary round the rest of the tournament is playing out as follows:<\/p>\n<h2>Qualifying round, Tuesday, Feb. 23:<\/h2>\n<li>Switzerland 3 vs. Belarus 2, 3 p.m. ET, Switzerland plays United States next<\/li>\n<li>Canada 8 vs. Germany 2, 7:30 p.m., Canada plays Russia next<\/li>\n<li>Czech Republic 3 vs. Latvia 2, 10 p.m., Czech Republic plays Finland next<\/li>\n<li>Slovakia 4 vs. Norway 3, 12 a.m., Slovakia plays Sweden next<\/li>\n<h2>Quarterfinal round, Wednesday, Feb. 24:<\/h2>\n<li>United States vs. Switzerland, 3 p.m. <i>(Prediction USA)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Finland vs. Czech Republic, 12:00 a.m. <i>(Prediction Finland)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Sweden vs. Slovakia, 10 p.m. <i>(Prediction Sweden)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Russia vs. Canada, 7 p.m. <i>(Prediction Canada)<\/i><\/li>\n<h2>Semifinal round, Friday, Feb. 26:<\/h2>\n<li>Semifinal game No. 1, 3 p.m. <i>(Prediction USA over Finland)<\/i> <\/li>\n<li>Semifinal game No. 2, 9:30 p.m. <i>(Prediction Canada over Sweden)<\/i><\/li>\n<h2>Medal games<\/h2>\n<li>Bronze-medal game, Saturday, Feb. 27, 10 p.m. <i>(Prediction Sweden over Finland)<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Gold-medal game, Sunday, Feb. 28, 3:15 p.m. <i>(Prediction Canada over USA)<\/i><\/li>\n<h2>Prediction<\/h2>\n<li>Gold &#8211; Canada<\/li>\n<li>Silver &#8211; USA<\/li>\n<li>Bronze &#8211; Sweden<\/li>\n<p>Possible upsets:<\/p>\n<li>Russia over Canada<\/li>\n<li>Finland over USA<\/li>\n<li>Sweden over Canada<\/li>\n<h3>Update:<\/h3>\n<p>Here is an alternate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver2010.com\/olympic-hockey\/schedule-and-results\/men_ihm400000vm_playoff-dE.html\">official hockey tournament schedule<\/a> courtesy of Lisa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the preliminary round the rest of the tournament is playing out as follows: Qualifying round, Tuesday, Feb. 23: Switzerland 3 vs. Belarus 2, 3 p.m. ET, Switzerland plays United States next Canada 8 vs. Germany 2, 7:30 p.m., Canada plays Russia next Czech Republic 3 vs. Latvia 2, 10 p.m., Czech Republic plays Finland &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/2010-olympic-mens-hockey-tournament\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2010 Olympic Men&#8217;s Hockey Tournament<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-hockey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUBG8-2B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glensharp.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}