Olympic hockey teams 2014
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Olympic hockey teams 2014
The 2014 olympics had a lot to display in terms of hockey and I will explain the reasons why these thirteen teams were successful
Team Germany
Team germany has never been a strong team
They had the 10 spot coming into the plympics
Germany had some very solid defenseman
Cristian ehroff, denis seidenberg and alexander sulzer
Team Sweden
In the 2014 olympics team Sweden didn’t have a lot of confidence
two of the best players werent going to compete due to injury henrik sedin and henrik zeterberg
Sweden ended up winning the silver medal
playing great defence had a great powerplay and a solid goalie
Team norway
Team norway bad olympic team
Pour defence and offence
Great in olympics bad at hockey
No nhl players on roster
Team latvia
Lost to canada in the quaterfinals
Played decent in the tournement
No nhl players
Good coaching
Team Switzerland
Team switzerland has never really been known for their hockey this year they put up a pretty good fight
they played very good against very talented teams
the main reason for their success was goaltender jonas hiller
teams wouldn’t worry about their offence it was their goaltending
Team finland
Team finland played an extremely talented tournament
missing pretty much their star players louis ericson mikko koivu and valtteri filppula
the team was relying on their veteran players
including teemu selanne
they ended up defeating usa in the bronze medal game
Team slovakia
Had a great team in 2010
Had boston bruins captain 6.9 zdeno chara
Did not place in top ten this olympics
Team Russia
Team russia was huge disappointment this year
they were a team filled with stars
but just in the end didn’t work well as a team
they didn’t place in the standings
Team austria
Decent in the olympics
1 nhl player in tomas vanek
Didn’t place top 8
Team czech republic
Team czech republic was a team that wasent expected to do much
and which didn’t they placed in the top eight
and with many of their players now to old for the olympics
probably wont be a successful team anymore
Team slovania
Team slovania did very well in the oympics
they were in the top eight
and it wasn't excepted at all
the team only had one nhl player anze kopitar
who was the leading scorer on the team and the captain of the team
Team USA
Team usa came into the olympics with a very good looking team
they had some of the best players in the nhl
looked good in the round robin
they won their first game but it went all downhill from there
they lost to team canada
then lost the bronze medal 5-0 to team finland
Team canada
team Canada had a dream team this year
an extremely talented team they won the gold medal
had great goaltending in carey price
amazing defence from players like shea weber drew doughty and our vancouver canuck dan hamhuis