#Gadbois have 7 teams that I counted in the dance event

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Finlandia Trohy 2021 is going to have some intense internal showdowns as part of the big showdown. Let’s review them:

Men:

Kolyada vs. Brown vs. Messing

Ladies:

Kostornaia vs. Tuktamysheva vs. Valieva (same as at Skate Canada)

Chen vs. Glenn 

Pairs:

Moore-Towers/Marinaro vs. James/Radford

Hase/Seegert vs. Hocke/Kunkel

Mishina/Galliamov vs. Boikova/Kozlovskii

Cain/LeDuc vs. Calalang/Johnson

Dance:

Lajoie/Lagha vs. Soucisse/Firus

Smart/Diaz vs.Hurtado/Khaliavin

Carreira/Ponomarenko vs. Shevchenko/Eremenko (at least imo)

Papadakis/Cizeron vs. Chock/Bates vs. Stepanova/Bukin (mainly the last two)

It’s safe the assume that some of these teams will withdraw prior to the event, but it’s still such an exciting one!

#FinlandiaTrophy2021 #Gadbois have 7 teams that I counted in the dance event #maybe 8 I'm not sure #I had a chaotic thought that I only shared with Konner so far LOL #maybe later

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My Thoughts ahead of and preview of Skate Canada

Events in AEST (AEDT is 1 hour forward)

Saturday 27 Oct

4.27am Pairs SP

5.52am Mens SP

9.10am Ice Dance RD

10.45am Ladies SP

Sunday 28 Oct

3.27am Pairs FS

5.02am Mens FS

9.10am Ice Dance FD

11.00am Ladies FS

Monday 29 Oct

4.00am Gala

Skaters that I’m interested in for each event

Men’s (12)

Brenda Kerry (AUS!)

The showdown of Keegan Messing v. Roman Sadovsky v. Nam Nguyen (realistically this will go to KM but it will be interesting to see the spread between the 3 ahead of CAN Nats)

Jason Brown on the GP but with new coaching

Shoma Uno going for the title

Junhwan Cha stepping up into his own in the senior ranks

Prediction:

🥇Shoma Uno 🇯🇵

🥈Jun Hwan Cha 🇰🇷

🥉Keegan Messing 🇨🇦

Ladies (12)

Alaine Chartrand v. Veronik Mallet v. Alicia Pineault ahead of nationals will be interesting.

Wakaba!!! I hope that she can pull those nerves together and skate clean because there is so much potential there.

Evgenia Medvedeva on the GP with new coaching (will these programs be more substantial? How many jumps have been worked upon?)

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva seems to be on fire this season I wouldn’t be surprised if her TES was higher than Medvedeva’s but EM gets 1st on PCS which meh

Starr Andrews v. Mariah Bell will also be interesting

Prediction:

🥇Evgenia Medvedeva 🇷🇺

🥈Elizaveta Tuktamysheva 🇷🇺

🥉Wakaba Higuchi 🇯🇵

Pairs (8)

Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya and Harley Windsor!!! (AUS!) I really hope that they can get their throws under control and that we don’t see any aborted lifts here. Top 5 would be fab. But mostly just please skate clean. Woooo! Senior GP debut!

Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro.

Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres

Aleksandra Boikova and Dimitrii Kozlovskii I don’t know what it was with these guys transitioning to senior but it has done wonders for them and they’ve had some really solid debuts. SGP debut.

Evelyn Walsh and Trent Michaud. I have a soft spot for these two fingers crossed that they skate clean. SGP debut.

Will be interesting to see Peng Cheng and Jin Yang and whether the challenge for the podium as we haven’t seen them yet this season

Prediction:

🥇James/Cipres 🇫🇷

🥈Moore-Towers/Marinaro 🇨🇦

🥉Boikova/Kozlovskii 🇷🇺

Ice Dance (10)

HD I’m excited just for them to earn their GPF spot and take a nap because consecutive gps is *phewww*

GP are better than SK but I don’t know whether the judges will think that. I hope that being on home turf here and the top Canadian team on the Grand Prix works out for GP. This is me being optimistic. If it turns the other way around because of SWR then I’m still counting this as a correctly predicted podium

No-one’s seen or heard from SA since they won jnr worlds so seeing their programs is kind of a FINALLY. SGP debut.

Having so many Gadbois teams (1/2 the event!) will be interesting in many ways

I hope to see M-F Dubreuil in the k&c

Prediction:

🥇Hubbell/Donohue 🇺🇸 *

🥈Gilles/Poirier 🇨🇦

🥉Sinitsina/Katsalapov 🇷🇺

Bonus!

4. Smart/Diaz 🇪🇸 *

5. Lauriault/Le Gac 🇫🇷 *

6. Soucisse/Firus 🇨🇦 *

7. Wang/Liu 🇨🇳 *

8. Skoptcova/Aleshin 🇷🇺

9. Tweedale/Buckland 🇬🇧

10. Sales/Wamsteeker 🇨🇦

*Gadbois team

What are your thoughts? Send them my way.

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