Four Nations Faceoff: Predictions & Key Players to Watch

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00:00Leading into our future for our final five is this four nations face-off that

00:06will begin next week and I'm gonna keep it very simple I know that it's chalk

00:11but we're gonna go with the United States to win the four nations face-off

00:15at plus 145. Now United States and Canada are the clear favorites Sweden and

00:21Finland very far behind them in terms of the odds board but what stands out to me

00:25with the United States is that they have the best goaltending all around in this

00:32entire thing. You can make a case they have the three best goals in the whole

00:35thing with Ottinger and with Hellebuyck and with Swayman and they

00:40have a forward roster that can compete with Canada. We still don't know how

00:45serious are they gonna take this thing it's I don't think it's gonna have the

00:48intensity that the Olympics has but either way I think the United States

00:53will find a way to get this thing done in the four nations tournament. Now

00:57there's a bunch of other stuff that I wanted to get to with the four nations

01:01and that is some competition long markets that they have one of them most

01:08points and the other one the most goals for the four nations. Now most points

01:13Connor McDavid of course is the least so these are gonna have big names at the

01:18top of the board McDavid's plus 750 to have the most points in the four nations

01:22McKinnon's 9 to 1 Austin Matthews 14 Jack Hughes 19

01:27Rantanen at 19 not gonna go with Rantanen and Barkov with 19 so they have

01:31a couple of guys further down. Usually the stars shine in these things so

01:37whether it's McDavid, McKinnon those are probably the two guys that I would focus

01:42on and it's pretty good numbers. Now remember if you this team makes the

01:46finals you're talking five games that they are gonna play. Three games in the

01:51round Robin and then they'll do the elimination and go the final four and

01:55then the final two. So McDavid and McKinnon it's gonna be Canada USA I

02:00believe. It's gonna be Canada USA at the end. So that's those are the two groups of guys

02:04that you want to focus in on if you're gonna play any of these other ones. Most

02:07goals in the tournament Matthews is the pre-tournament favorite at 9 to 1

02:12McDavid's 11 to 1 Reinhardt 11 to 1 Brayden point 11 to 1 Jack Hughes 13

02:18Hughes is pretty sneaky at 13. I don't mind that at all especially if you think

02:22USA is gonna play all five games which I sure do. 13 to 1 for him and

02:27McKinnon sits in at 14 to 1 for the most goals in the tournament and if you want

02:32to have even more fun with this they do give you a couple books. Included Vandal

02:37does give you this. You can put in guy individual players to score X amount of

02:43goals. One goal, two goals, three goals, four goals. So for example Austin Matthews

02:48three goals let's say in the entire tournament plus 350. That's for Team USA.

02:53For Canada three goals for McKinnon plus 330. If there's a guy you know there's a

02:58couple grinder guys down here especially on the United States that I could see

03:03scoring some big goals. Let's say a little Brock Nelson for you plus 470 to

03:07score two goals in the entire competition. So that's kind of where I

03:12want to be in that is finding some of those ones. I like the two goal market.

03:17There's Gensel plus 290 to score twice. So you got a few days till this starts

03:22on Wednesday. You could kick yourself off with that and the first game of this

03:27competition is going to be on Wednesday night. It opens Canada against Sweden.

03:31Canada's already minus 230. Totals five and a half so they got some low totals

03:36here in these games. United States will play Finland on Thursday night next

03:41week and the United States is minus 360 against the Finns. The Finns have

03:48considerably the weakest roster out of the four for this four nations going forward.

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