Four Nations Face-Off Overview: Key Players and Predictions

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00:00for the four nations face off canada united states sweden and finland the four nations

00:07this in place tom of the traditional nhl all-star game it starts tomorrow night with canada versus

00:14sweden let's talk about the format and what it means for betting the winner of the four nations

00:19face off yeah so this is a a round robin we have seen a round robin format all these teams will

00:24play each other they'll move on past that picking up uh points obviously based on things whatever

00:28it might be canada and us have been kind of flip-flopping in terms of who's been the favorite

00:33uh canada jumped ahead as the favorite as we got the news that quinn hughes one of the top

00:36defensemen for the usa brother of jack hughes he's gonna miss it just due to injury a lot of

00:41these teams are uh getting replacement players in so to see canada as the favorite isn't too

00:46much of a surprise the general consensus is that it's probably usa is the strongest team overall

00:50canada a very close number two then sweden then finland as being the weakest team as of now and

00:56a lot of it comes down to usa has the best goaltender in the world right now at least

01:00that who's playing in this tournament with conor helya buck goaltending has been the issue for

01:04canada and the forwards for canada we know we're obviously immensely talented with david

01:08mckinnon etc etc but the defense and the goaltending for the us is what should put them ahead