2014 Winter Olympic Hockey Odds: Canada Favored Over USA

It's not a huge surprise, but Team USA isn't favored to win the gold medal in hockey. They're not even favored to win their group, which is actually a surprise. But hey, at least odds are even that they're going to medal!

Which isn't good, actually, because you're not making any bank off of that.

Here're the pertinent odds from Bovada.lv:

2014 Olympic Ice Hockey – Men’s Gold Medal

Canada 2/1

Russia 9/4

Sweden 9/2

USA 6/1

Finland 11/1

Czech Republic 12/1

Switzerland 33/1

Slovakia 40/1

Norway 200/1

Latvia 400/1

Austria 1000/1

Slovenia 1000/1

2014 Olympic Ice Hockey – Men’s Group A Winner

Russia 1/2

USA 7/4

Slovakia 9/1

Slovenia 100/1

2014 Olympic Ice Hockey – Men’s Group B Winner

Canada 1/7

Finland 7/2

Norway 50/1

Austria 100/1

2014 Olympic Ice Hockey – Men’s Group C Winner

Sweden 1/2

Czech Republic 2/1

Switzerland 7/1

Latvia 80/1

2014 Olympic Ice Hockey Men’s - Will Canada Win A Medal?

Yes -400 (1/4)

No +275 (11/4)

2014 Olympic Ice Hockey Men’s - Will Russia Win A Medal?

Yes -300 (1/3)

No +220 (11/5)

2014 Olympic Ice Hockey Men’s - Will USA Win A Medal?

Yes EVEN (1/1)

No -130 (10/13)

2014 Olympic Ice Hockey – Men’s Top Goalscorer (Top 15)

Alex Ovechkin (RUS) 6/1

Steven Stamkos (CAN) 8/1

Sidney Crosby (CAN) 9/1

Patrick Kane (USA) 10/1

John Tavares (CAN) 11/1

Iilya Kovalchuk (RUS) 12/1

Evgeni Malkin (RUS) 12/1

Rick Nash (CAN) 14/1

Daniel Sedin (SWE) 14/1

Corey Perry (CAN) 14/1

Zach Parise (USA) 14/1

Alexander Steen (SWE) 16/1

Joe Pavelski (USA) 18/1

Phil Kessel (USA) 18/1

Ryan Getzlaf (CAN) 20/1

2014 Olympic MVP

Alexander Ovechkin (RUS) 7/1

Sidney Crosby (CAN) 7/1

Patrick Kane (USA) 10/1

Evgeni Malkin (RUS) 12/1

Henrik Lundqvist (SWE) 15/1

Is it just me, or are Team USA's progress odds not the best in the world? (see what I did there?)