Olympic Hockey

Olympic Hockey: Live Blog for Canada vs Finland

February 16, 2014
By Michael Clifford

Live blog for the Canada vs Finland men's Olympic hockey game from Sochi, Russia. The game is set to start at Noon Eastern time.

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Good morning, afternoon or evening everyone!

Welcome to the XNSports live blog for Canada vs. Finland in men’s Olympic hockey from Sochi.

This is the final game of the round robin and this is a game that will ultimately decide which team is the group winner and which team will need to play an extra qualifying game.

There have been substantial changes to the Canadian lineup and those are posted in the live blog.

So join us for this little discussion as the hockey team from XNSports talks about line combinations, line matching, crucial plays and other observations from the game!

Michael Clifford

Michael Clifford was born and raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada and is a graduate of the Unviersity of New Brunswick. He writes about fantasy hockey and baseball for XNSports and FantasyTrade411.com. He can be reached on Twitter @SlimCliffy for any fantasy hockey questions. Follow @SlimCliffy !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');