🏒🏒🏒 The seventh and final day of pool play has arrived for the International Ice Hockey Federation Women’s World Championship and brings with it three games at the Adirondack Center.
The United States and Canada finished pool play Monday with an overtime thriller, and the top two seeds now have two days off ahead of Thursday’s quarterfinals.
Germany beat Sweden, the other Pool B unbeaten to that point, and plays China Tuesday morning with a chance to secure the sixth seed as the top team in Pool B; Monday’s loss was the final game for Sweden in pool play and leaves that squad in position for the seventh of eight seeds in the knockout round.
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There is one spot remaining for Pool B, and Japan plays Denmark in the final game of pool play. China is currently third in the Pool B standings with three points, but Denmark has two and Japan has one, and a win in regulation is worth three points which would move either team ahead of China – if China loses to Germany in the morning. Denmark defeated China head-to-head in a shootout, and Japan notched its lone point in a shootout loss to China.
Monday’s afternoon game is Czechia and Switzerland in Pool A. All five Pool A teams are assured of spots in the knockout round and Czechia, the bronze medalist the last two years, is currently tied with Finland with three points while Switzerland has yet to earn a standings point. Czechia needs to get to overtime or win outright to break its tie for third place, and any of those outcomes would also lock Switzerland into fifth; a Switzerland win in regulation would forge a three-way tie.
Observer-Dispatch and Times Telegram journalists Jon Rathbun and Daniel DeLoach are there for all the action and will be keeping you up to date throughout the tournament. Reporters Amy Neff Roth, Laura Sitterly and Ellen Mintzer will also be bringing you news and updates during the tournament.
Keep checking back here all day as we update on the games and more as Team USA pursues its 11th tournament championship.
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Finland vs. Switzerland, 10 a.m.
Czechia vs. Germany, 1:30 p.m.
Sweden vs. Canada, 5 p.m.
United States vs. Japan, 8:30 p.m.
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