As the group stage wrapped up yesterday at the 2017 IIHF World Hockey Championships, the tournament shrank from sixteen teams to eight.
Quarterfinal action gets underway on March 18. First, let’s look back at each group and how the round robin went.
Group A:
| Rank | Team | W | OTW | OTL | L | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 |
| 2 | Russia | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17 |
| 3 | Sweden | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
| 4 | Germany | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| 5 | Latvia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 6 | Denmark | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 7 | Slovakia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| 8 | Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
This group went pretty much the way it was expected to and the host Germans even got into the playoff round by finishing fourth.