The Winter Olympics starts in some days and I have been looking forward to this happening for a long time. 2010 is a great year over all with Winter Olympics, World Cup in football and the fantastic exciting Champions League, European Cup, Premier League and everything else that is going to been played in between that.

In this text I will start with my first bettingtips from the Olympic Games from Vancouver witch starts on Saturday the 12^th of February. I will be back with more bettingtips from other events such as Biathlon, alpine skiing, Cross-country and so on. But in this text I will give you my analysis for the ice hockey tournament.

Before I give you my best bet I want to present to odds for you so you can see if you find any other interesting bet compared to my analyse.

Here are the odds for all teams for Olympics Ice Hockey. All the odds are from bwin Olympic Game betting:

To win Gold in Olympic Games in Ice hockey:

Canada, odds: 2.10

Russia, odds: 3.05

Sweden, odds: 6.50

USA, odds: 9.00

Czech Republic, odds: 18.00

Finland, odds: 21.00

Slovakia, odds: 51.00

Switzerland, odds: 201.00

Belarus, odds: 501.00

Germany, odds: 501.00

Latvia, odds: 501.00

Norway, odds: 1001.00

I have chosen to split the teams into three “groups”; A, B and C where group A and B have a potential opportunity to win the gold:

Group A:

Canada, Russia and Sweden

Group B:

USA, Czech Repiblic, Finland and Slovakia

Group C:

Switzerland, Belarus, Germany, Latvia and Norway

My bettingtips:

Sweden to win gold medal to 6.50 at odds.

As I see this Canada shall be favourites to take the gold medal at their own home ice. The Canadian fans are fanatic and they have the best team in the world as well. But I would never bet on them to 2.10 in odds. I can’t find any value on the odds since it even means that their chance to win gold should be about 48 % to be a value bet.

There are so many great teams in this tourney and I just can’t see the Canadian team win every other gold. Even Russia is a bit too big favourites according to me with only 3.10 in odds. Both Russia and Canada are normally the two best teams in the world at the moment, I don’t disagree with that. But I don’t find the Swedish team that far behind either Canada or Russia and find the odds at 6.50 on a Swedish gold very interesting.

Behind there three teams I find Team America and Finland as the biggest challengers to win the gold medal. Many experts has been warning for especially the American team and that they are a potential underdog in this tourney and even though I have big respect for them this year I can’t see that they can go all the way to the gold.

If you ask me I am more afraid of Finland from the teams in my Group B. They have a solid team and a good combination of older, more experienced, and younger and hungry players. And Finland is one of few teams that can play as tough as Canada when it comes to toughness. The reason that I don’t see Finland as a winner of this tournament is that they have way less key-players then Sweden, Canada or Russia. And according to me an Olympic gold candidate has to have more players that single handed can win games for their side.

Behind these teams Czech Republic and Slovakia can go whole the way to the gold if everything goes their way, but my feeling is that both these teams are weaker then some years ago. If the older players can perform at their top and everything goes their way they can reach semi-finals as best. But still I have to mention them as potential winners since they have many players in NHL.

But my bettingtips goes to Sweden and that’s not only because I am a Swede myself. But I find the odds on Swedish gold very interesting and with top-class players on every position. Some examples are:

Goal keeper: Henrik Lundqvist, one of the best goal keepers in NHL, playing for New York Rangers.

Defenders: Nicklas Lidstrom, one of the best defenders in NHL with lots of trophy’s and awards with Detroit Redwings. Mattias Ohlund, Douglas Murray, Johnny Oduya and Niklas Kronwall. All of them playing in National Hockey League and doing very well.

Forwards: Henrik Zetterberg, Daniel and Henrik Sedins, Nicklas Backstrom, Danial Alfredsson, Peter Forsberg, Tomas Homstrom, Samuel Palhsson (and some other interesting forwards).

Almost all of Sweden’s forwards are playing as key-players in different NHL clubs. The only question mark at the moment is Peter Forsberg. He has been playing home in the Swedish league this season after some injuries. But when he has been able to play he has still showed that he still is one of the best players in the world. And both Zetterberg and the Sedin brothers are some of the best players in NHL. So 6.50 in odds for a bet on Sweden really feel exciting and that my bet as winner of the Gold medal in the Olympic Games 2010.

/Best Regards

Amrish

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