Olympic Hockey Preview: Six Sabres Represent Country in Vancouver

by David Oleksy on Feb 15, 2010 10:40 PM EST

On Tuesday at 3 p.m. Eastern the United States and Switzerland will kick off the Hockey Tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Six members of the Buffalo Sabres organization will be representing their countries. Lindy Ruff (Canada-Assistant Coach), Ryan Miller (United States), Henrik Tallinder (Sweden), Toni Lydman (Finland), Jochen Hecht (Germany) and Andrej Sekera (Slovakia) will all take to the ice over the next couple of weeks.

The preliminary round will begin on Tuesday afternoon and continue until Sunday evening. Next Monday will be a day off and the tournament will resume next Tuesday. All 12 teams will advance to the qualification round and will be reseeded based on their preliminary round results. The entire format can be found here.

If you are craving more Olympic hockey coverage you can check out the NHL.com Olympic hockey hub. It is very useful for articles, previews and up to the minute news from Vancouver.

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I will put up a quick post everyday with the schedule for Sabres players and possibly a short preview of the game. I will also have a Game Thread posted for every USA game starting tomorrow with the game against Switzerland.

Follow the jump to find out the Olympic Schedule for Members of the Sabres organization.

Tuesday
Time	Visiting Team	Home Team	Television	Sabres Involved
3:00 PM	USA	Switzerland	USA Network	Ryan Miller - USA
7:30 PM	Canada	Norway	CNBC	Lindy Ruff - Canada (Asst. Coach)

Wednesday
Time	Visiting Team	Home Team	Television	Sabres Involved
3:00 PM	Finland	Belarus	MSNBC	Toni Lydman - Finland
7:30 PM	Sweden	Germany	CNBC	Henrik Tallinder - Sweden, Jochen Hecht - Germany
11:55 PM	Czech Republic	Slovakia	CNBC	Andrej Sekera - Slovakia

Thursday
Time	Visiting Team	Home Team	Television	Sabres Involved
3:00 PM	USA	Norway	USA Network	Ryan Miller - USA
7:30 PM	Switzerland	Canada	CNBC	Lindy Ruff - Canada (Asst. Coach)
11:55 PM	Slovakia	Russia	CNBC	Andrej Sekera - Slovakia

Friday
Time	Visiting Team	Home Team	Television	Sabres Involved
3:00 PM	Belarus	Sweden	MSNBC	Henrik Tallinder - Sweden
11:55 PM	Finland	Germany	MSNBC	Toni Lydman - Finland, Jochen Hecht - Germany

Saturday
Time	Visiting Team	Home Team	Television	Sabres Involved
7:30 PM	Latvia	Slovakia	MSNBC	Andrej Sekera - Slovakia
11:55 PM	Germany	Belarus	MSNBC	Jochen Hecht - Germany

Sunday
Time	Visiting Team	Home Team	Television	Sabres Involved
7:45 PM	Canada	USA	MSNBC	Ryan Miller - USA, Lindy Ruff - Canada (Asst. Coach)
11:55 PM	Sweden	Finland	MSNBC	Henrik Tallinder - Sweden, Toni Lydman - Finland

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God, the USA vs. Canada is going to be a battle. Hopefully, Millsy is nice and warmed up by then.

We got a gold medal to chase!

Dave-
Do you know if Paul Martin is in or out, and who would replace him?

Fatang Fatang.

by NeverendingOptimism on Feb 16, 2010 12:42 AM EST reply actions

Awesome.

USA game threads will be cool but tomorrows games the only one ill miss due to work. Idk if i should get on the game thread at work or record and watch after.

"Hey ey ey ey"

by bflo on Feb 16, 2010 1:31 AM EST via mobile reply actions