The first and third place games will be played at the World Hockey Championships in Tampere on Sunday.
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First, at 15.20 in the battle for third place, the Czech Republic will compete with the US hockey players.
The United States finished fourth in Group B with 13 points, suffering two losses, while the Czech Republic finished third in this group with 13 points and four victories.
Mutual group play success was celebrated with 1: 0 Czech Republic.
In the quarter-finals, the Czechs faced Germany, winning 4: 1 and losing to the semi-finals 1: 6. Meanwhile, the US hockey players won the quarter-final match against Switzerland with 3: 0, but in the semi-final with 3: 4 they lost to Finland.
In the final, which starts at 8.20 pm and will be a repeat of the 2019 and 2021 finals, Canada will face Finland.
Finland has only lost once in their home championship in the concessions to neighboring Swedes after the game (2: 3) and took first place in Group B, while Canada took third place in Group A with 15 points after conceding Switzerland and Denmark.
In the quarter-finals, Finland managed to make up for a two-goal deficit and beat Slovakia 4: 2, and in the semi-finals to beat the US 4: 3, while the Canadians played a three-goal deficit in the final third of the playoffs and beat Sweden 4: 3 and 6: 3 in the semi-finals. 1 destroyed the Czech Republic.
The two teams met twice at the 2021 World Championships in Riga, when Finland was first in the group in the post-match throws with 3: 2, but in the final, with the same result, the Canadian hockey players were successful. In general, Canadians have won gold medals 27 times.
In the final of the 2019 World Championships in Bratislava, Finland beat the Canadians 3: 1 with their third gold medal.
It has already been reported that the Latvian national team in Group B in Tampere took the fifth place with eight points in seven games, finishing in the tenth place in the championship and not entering the playoffs.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) suspended all Russian and Belarusian teams and clubs from competitions organized by the IIHF. Russia and Belarus will be replaced by France and Austria, which ranked the highest selection of countries not expected to play in the top division.
The 16 teams participating in the tournament are divided into two groups, eight units each, which guarantees seven games for each team in the subgroup competition. After one round of group matches, the four best teams in each subgroup will continue to fight for medals in the quarterfinals, while the weakest teams in the tournament will leave the strongest division last year, with Slovenia and Hungary in the top 16 next year.
The 2022 World Championships in Finland will run until May 29.
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