With four teams left in the men’s hockey tournament, Vegas is starting to get mildly interested in the subject. It’s clear that the odds are not exactly accurate in a one-game series, case in point being Canada’s demolition of Russia on Wednesday. Nobody saw that one coming.
Happiness Vs. Sadness: The Odds Of Olympians Going Home With Hockey Hardware
↵But nevertheless, odds have been thrown around for the two semifinal games taking place on Friday in Vancouver, as well as odds on the potential gold and bronze medal games.
↵From SBN’s excellent hockey stats blog, Behind The Net, we get these...
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CAN USA FIN SVK Gold 62% 21% 12% 5% Silver 24% 39% 28% 10% Bronze 11% 26% 30% 33% Sadness 4% 14% 30% 52%
↵The United States has an 86 percent chance at taking home a medal before the weekend is over, while Canada has a whopping 96 percent chance despite their early tournament struggles. The question is, does the 4 percent chance of sadness take into account the fact that it’s Canada and that if they don’t medal, the entire country will descend into it’s own mini-Great Depression?
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