The game between Czech Republic and Slovakia are still highlighted. Both team already saved participation at the following World Chamionship and both teams will play less nervous as last games in relegation group (SVK-AUT 3:2, while CZE-LAT 10:2). Rivality is too high for both coaches as they said for nation news, and both team would like to add one more win. But are they not going to thinking about followin year ? Adding teams to preliminary groups for World Championship 2011 might be by position in this tournament. In Group A will be 1st,4th,5th,8th and new team from I.division. In Group B will be 2nd,3rd,6th,7th and new team from I.division.

In group B we can expect USA or Canada, propably Sweden (expected to beat Switzerland in bronze medal game), Russia or Finland and better from this game for the 7th position.

Slovakia has started tournament against USA. They were in leading 2-0, but all because too many penalty minutes for team USA. Following minutes, as well as game against Canada, there was only one team on the ice. Slovakia's goalies didn't show good performance and only one line Tomas Tatar (3+2), Marek Viedensky (1+5) and Richard Panik (6+2) is available to make a pressure and to score.

Czech Republic expectation finished after turnover by Finland and lose with Russia. Czech U20 was in leading 3-0, but huge finnish by Finland gave to Czech's very sad final result 3-4. Win over Austria 7-1 gave more energy to this team and they beat following game Russia on shots 41-26, but once again they didn't finnish well a game. In 55th minute Novotny scored 2-2 goal, but Russia added another three. Czech Republic has 7 players with 5 points or more, including two goalies regulary in top Czech ice-hockey league. Jakub Sedlacek is by percentage best goalie in this league.

If there will be only rivality and no speculations for following year Championship, then Czech Republic is favorit for me as usual. Odd like 2,10 by Bwin or 1,87 Expekt are long time valuable for this head-to-head games (even when i watched quality U20 teams either seniors). As i could see lot of Slovakian and Czech bettors already placed their bets and odds went down little bit to current best 1,80 at Expekt.