Analysis: Sweden - Russia, odds and tips

author: Betin submitted: 7 May 2012

Free Betting Tip & Prediction
for this match

match finished: 11 May 2012, 7:15pm GMT

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   odds:

DECIMAL 4.5FRACTIONAL 7/2

our prediction: Over 5.5 goals 

Tip: U/O

Stake: 3/10

at the highest odd: 1.83   bookmaker: 

Classifications and team condition

Two unusually talented teams are meeting. The Swedes are two times Olympic Champions and eight times World  Champions. Since the Scandinavians are one of the host-countries of this championship and the following World  Championship (IIHF decision) the coach of "Three Crowns" Peir Mertz doesn't have any complaints. Several famous players who play in NHL expressed desire to play in the National Team of Sweden. Among them are Jhonas Enroth (Buffalo), Victor Hedman (Tampa Bay), Linus Omart (Edmonton), Gabriel Landeskog (Colorado). After Detroit Red Wings said good bye to the play-off the biggest stars of the Swedish hockey joined the lineup of "Three Crowns": Henrik Zetteberg, Johan Franzen, Jonathan Ericsson and also Niclas Cronwall. The lineup of the Swedish National Team hasn't been so strong for a long time. The problem is that the Russian team is also in a similar situation. Of course except from such stars as Malkin there also are Datsuk, Popov, Perezhogin or the great goal keeper Varlamov. The majority of National Team's players play in the Russian KHL.

Our free betting Tip and prediction

Both teams are absolute representatives of the highest world class. Any result is possible in this match. The Swedes have a huge potential in the attack, the same as the Russians. This is confirmed by all previous matches of the tournament. If to look closer to the "Three Crowns" matches with the Russian National Team we can say that it scores many pucks. In ten previous matches 65 pucks were scored, 6.5 pucks a match in average. Interestingly that only once (Carlay's Cup) in 2008 less than 5 pucks in a match were scored (1:0 for Russia). Here we offer a forecast for over 5.5 considering the fact that both teams have NHL representatives what will influence the game's intensity and pace...