With the men's Olympic hockey tournament set to begin Tuesday, we give you our medal picks. Read 'em and weep!

Scott Burnside

Gold: Canada. Playing at home will be a blessing, not a curse, and the team's depth and youth will bring home gold and erase the stain of a seventh-place finish four years ago in Torino.

Silver: Sweden. Henrik Lundqvist gets his mojo back and the Swedes, as deep down the middle as any team in the tournament, will come close to repeating as gold-medal champs. Close, but not close enough.

Bronze: United States. When it gets down to one-and-done time, we like the Americans and their youthful grit and speed to outlast more talented competition like the Russians and Czechs for the bronze.

Pierre LeBrun

Gold: Canada. The pressure will be enormous, no question; but Martin Brodeur in goal and Scott Niedermayer on the blue line will give the host team the kind of calming influence Mario Lemieux and Steve Yzerman provided in 2002.

Silver: Sweden. Henrik Sedin, Nicklas Backstrom and Henrik Zetterberg are the top three centers. Henrik Lundqvist is in goal. These are the defending Olympic champions.

Bronze: Russia. This isn't the medal they came to Vancouver for, but somehow I think the KHL politics in naming this roster may come back to bite them.