It’s taken us two weeks to find out that Slovenia and Italy will be relegated from the top division and that Russia, Sweden, Finland, Canada, the US, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland will play in the quarterfinals.

Tomorrow, we’ll find out whether the eighth team is Latvia or Norway.

No great surprises, in other words, but such great fun. It truly is a hockeyfest.

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Lundqvist
Backstrom
Canadian coaches
Denmark
Bettman