Once the hockey players arrived in Italy, the action moved on in a fast an furious manner. Since Wednesday, nations have been playing each other in their round robin groups to establish seeding this week. With the United States winning 5-1 over Germany on Sunday, all of the seeding has now been set and we have a schedule for the rest of the Olympics.

So when can we watch our Hurricanes in action and how have they been doing so far?

Even if a team doesn’t have a Hurricane on it, at this point each game will at least affect a team that does, so having the full schedule should be useful.

Canada, the United States, and a surprising Slovakia—in that seeding order—won their groups and earned the automatic bye to the quarterfinals on Wednesday. Through tiebreakers—mostly because of their insane win on Saturday—Finland ended up as the best runner-up to earn the fourth seed and the final bye.

From there the teams were seeded to determine the four Qualifying matchups that will be played on Tuesday. Those matches are:

(6) Germany vs. (11) France — 6:10 AM ET(5) Switzerland vs (12) Italy — 6:10 AM ET(8) Czechia vs. (9) Denmark — 10:40 AM ET(7) Sweden vs. (10) Latvia — 3:10 PM ET

The losers of each of those matches are done, the winners move on to face the bye teams in the quarterfinals on Wednesday. That schedule:

(3) Slovakia vs. Germany/France Winner — 6:10 AM ET(1) Canada vs. Czechia/Denmark Winner — 10:40 AM ET(4) Finland vs. Switzerland/Italy Winner — 12:10 PM ET(2) United States vs. Sweden/Latvia Winner — 3:10 PM ET

The four winners will face off on Friday. The first semifinal will be at 10:40 ET and the second will be played at 3:10 ET. Note this is not a pure bracket. Rather there’s always a benefit to being the higher seed after the “qualification” round. The highest seed in the semifinal will play the lowest seed, then the other two will play.

The losers of the semifinals will play for the Bronze Medal at 2:40 ET Saturday. The Gold Medal match will see the winners face off bright and early Sunday on the east coast and before the sun is up the further west you go at 8:10 AM ET.

The competition for the United States is about to ramp up as they may have gotten the worst draw, through the quirks of the tiebreakers. Whereas Slovakia, Finland, and Canada will likely face teams with just a few NHLers on it, the United States is staring down the barrel of facing Sweden in the quarters. The extra day off should help.

The only way the United States and Canada will meet is in a medal round due to them going 1-2. It was likely the dream for both NBC and the CBC to get another final between the two, we’ll see if it materializes.

Hurricanes in the Olympics

The Olympics got off to a rough start for Aho and the Finns as they were stunned by Slovakia on Wednesday. Finland recovered though as they got a day off after the opener and then faced arch rival Sweden on Friday, and immediately reversed their fortunes with a 4-1 win. By the time they took the ice on Saturday against host country Italy, they knew that they couldn’t win the group but they could get the other bye by putting up a lot of goals.

Aho scored his first—and much later his second—career Olympic goals in the match, as his first goal was also Finland’s first thanks to a sick feed by…well we don’t need to say who. His second came in the third as the Fins were pouring it on and that result was enough to get the Fins the fourth seed. With three full days off the Fins will have plenty of time to relax, practice, and get their timing together to try and pull off a medal round surprise.

Nikolaj Ehlers & Frederik Andersen

The team from Denmark had a rough time in pool play. Andersen backstopped the Danes in their opening match against Germany, which ultimately became a 3-1 loss. Hurricane fans had a familiar feeling when the first goal was scored by Leon Draisaitl just :23 into the match. Andersen settled down, though, and Denmark was able to knot the score thanks to an assist by Ehlers. However Tim Stutzle took over in the second, and while Andersen didn’t surrender any other goals in the third, Denmark started 0-1.

The second match was against the US, and while Andersen sat, Ehlers did play. The game went as expected, although Ehlers did pick up an assist on Denmark’s final goal in the 6-3 loss. On Sunday, looking to establish momentum going into the qualifiers, Denmark was able to find its game against Latvia. Andersen stepped back between the pipes and held Latvia to just two goals, and Ehlers scored what would be the game-winner 16:28 into the first, thus becoming the second Hurricane to score a goal in this tournament.

There was also a great moment between teammates as the US played Denmark on Saturday.

If you’ve watched any coverage of the Olympics on NBC you’d be hard-pressed to know there are any other players on the team besides the Tkachuk brothers and Hughes brothers. Maybe you’d have heard about Austin Matthews since he scored some goals. On one level it’s tough to blame them because their actions at the 4 Nations last year broke through into pop culture and it’s going to be the people that the non-regular NHL wathers will know. That’s been the MO for all of NBC’s Olympics coverage—find the stars the US audience will know and focus coverage around them.

Adding to the fact that Slavin is a defenseman instead of a forward, and he’s just not going to stand out in the prelimnary rounds when the US is just throttling people. Still, Slavin did get credit for an assist on the first goal in the win over Denmark, and as the competition ramps up he’s likely going to get more of the spotlight like he did last year. He’s likely going to be used against the top lines, responsible for shutting them down. If the US and Canada end up in a rematch for a medal, expect him to get a ton of focus.

Seth Jarvis’ Olympics can probably be best summed up with “Happy to be here.”

As the last person to get an invite for Team Canada, it’s not surprising he’s been the first person to be a healthy scratch when coach Jon Cooper has to sit a defenseman, forward, and goalie for each game. Sure enough in the first matchup Jarvis was in the stands, but Cooper gave Jarvis fans a treat for the next two by sitting Brad Marchand and elevating Jarvis into his spot. Cooper still isn’t using him a lot—he’s only managed less than 20 TOI in the two games—but the experience could be valuable. Jarvis hadn’t scored, but he’s at least been making some news off the ice thanks to his friends.

Fans in Canada and across Caniac Nation are now familiar with Jarvis and his friends, and thanks to Air Canada they are in Italy to watch their friend play. They were seen on the world feed early in the match against France, and sure enough they were able to catch up with Seth after the game.

We’ll see how much more time Jarvis gets in this Olympics as Cooper has already indicated that Marchand will play in their quarterfinal game.While Cooper didn’t say who would sit, it feels likely that it will be Jarvis unless he’s impressed Cooper enough in his limited outings. Canada does have an embarrassment of riches to play with, so for Canes fans if Jarvis gets the experience of practicing and playing with this talent but limited game play to where he’ll come back healthy, it’s not the worst thing.

For Canes fans, the next game to watch involving players will be Tuesday at 10:40 AM ET. The Denmark/Czechia game should easily be the best match of the four as the team led by David Pastrnak and Martin Necas goes against Ehlers and the rest of the Danes. From there we should start seeing true best-on-best. Either way there’s a really good chance at least one Hurricane will be playing for a gold medal.