The four quarter-final ties were played on the Thursday on the day of the competition, and all were decided in regular time.
There are three tournaments in the afternoon program – Paper form – They start out with defeat, but then they find themselves Germans Defeated the swissand the only undefeated player in the group stage American Re-hired by the Sentinel Czechwho failed in their last three appearances.
In the evening pool and throughout the day of the match Canada In high quality and fast paced clash 4–beat him by 1 FinlandThe victory of the first was deserved – Their fourth goal in the 58th minute was an empty goal –while the hosts may come under heavy criticism for taking advantage of the situation.
Meanwhile in Riga Swede They played in vain with a massive field advantage with latvians against and won 41–With 15 shots on target, they also had serious problems taking advantage of the situation, considering that the Latvians were better in terms of goals scored.
From the Tampere group – in which the Hungarians also participated and finished last, so they said goodbye to the elite class – The first Americans and fourth Germans made it to the top four. Of the eight in Riga, Canada is second and Latvia is third.
World Championship Quarterfinals:
United State–Czech Republic 3–0 (1–0, 1–0, 1–0)
Germany–Switzerland 3–1 (1–0, 2–1, 0–0)
Latvia–Sweden 3–1 (1–0, 0–1, 2–0)
Canada–Finland 4–1 (1–0, 1–0, 2–1)
Saturday’s semi-finals, the Canada-USA (1:20pm) and Latvia-Germany (5:20pm) matches will be played in Tampere, and the bronze medal match and final will be played on Sunday, also in Nokia. Arena.
Next year, Slovenia may emerge as an outlier alongside the Hungarians in the Division 1 League/World Championships. – who came with us last year –as well as Italy, the Republic of Korea, Romania and, as reinforcement, Japan. Only one application came to the site, from Bolzano, the center of sports in Italy. The International Federation will decide the locations of next year’s tournaments at its conference on Friday (today).
