ZURICH \u2014 The United States set up a quarterfinal showdown with fierce rival Canada at the ice hockey world championship by beating Austria 4-1 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The U.S. and Canada met in the final at the Milan Cortina Olympics in February, when the Americans prevailed 2-1 in overtime<\/a> to take the gold medal.<\/p>\n Connor Clifton, Ryan Ufko, Paul Cotter and Matthew Tkachuk scored against Austria, and Will Borgen registered two assists. Devin Cooley made 25 saves in net.<\/p>\n The victory lifted the defending world champion<\/a> Americans to fourth place in Group A. That means they next face Canada, which topped Group B.<\/p>\n \u201cI liked our game overall and thought our goaltending was excellent,\u201d U.S. coach Don Granato said. \u201cWe look forward to the challenge ahead in facing Canada on Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n The remaining quarterfinal pairings are Switzerland versus Sweden, Finland versus Czechia and Norway versus Latvia.<\/p>\n Clifton found the top corner of the net 5:34 into the game, and fellow defenseman Ufko doubled the advantage by one-timing a slap shot from the point 45 seconds later.<\/p>\n Cotter made it 3-0 just 67 seconds into the second period before Tkachuk buried a rebound on a power play at 31:52. It was Tkachuk\u2019s fourth goal in four games since he joined the team last week.<\/p>\n Simeon Schwinger scored for Austria, which finished sixth.<\/p>\n Canada unbeaten<\/p>\n Macklin Celebrini scored two goals as Canada rallied past Czechia 3-2 to complete the preliminary stage with seven wins in seven games (one in overtime).<\/p>\n John Tavares scored the winner in the third period. Sidney Crosby and Parker Wotherspoon contributed two assists each.<\/p>\n Canada won Group B in Fribourg with 20 points, followed by Norway and Czechia.<\/p>\n The Czechs went ahead 2-0 after a first-period goal from Marek Alscher and another by Dominik Kubal\u00edk 8:18 into the middle period.<\/p>\n Crosby set up Celebrini from the slot to start the rally with 5:58 remaining in the second. Crosby then found Celebrini unmarked 7:14 into the third for his second goal of the game \u2014 and fifth of the tournament \u2014 to tie it at 2-2. Tavares netted a backhander for the winner.<\/p>\n Perfect hosts<\/p>\n In Zurich, Ken Jager scored his second goal on a power play with 3:13 to go in host Switzerland\u2019s 4-2 win over Finland.<\/p>\n Switzerland, with seven straight wins, all in regulation, dominated Group A with 21 points, three more than Finland.<\/p>\n Attilio Biasca and Jager gave the Swiss an early 2-0 advantage before Finland\u2019s Aleksander Barkov scored twice in the second period.<\/p>\n After Jager\u2019s second, Nico Hischier added an empty-netter.<\/p>\n Sweden, Latvia advance<\/p>\n Sweden, the bronze medalist in the last two world championships, beat Slovakia 4-2 in Group B in Fribourg to advance to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n Ivar Stenberg, a top prospect for next month\u2019s NHL draft<\/a>, scored the winning goal; Anton Frondell<\/a> and Jakob Silfverberg had a goal apiece; and Oliver Ekman-Larsson sealed the win with an empty-net score.<\/p>\n Sweden clinched fourth place while Slovakia finished fifth and didn\u2019t advance.<\/p>\n Latvia reached the quarterfinals by routing Hungary 8-1, moving to third place in Group A. Germany dropped to fifth and was eliminated.<\/p>\n Norway, which already had qualified for the last eight for the first time since 2012, needed overtime to down Denmark 4-3 in Group B action in Fribourg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZURICH \u2014 The United States set up a quarterfinal showdown with fierce rival Canada at the ice hockey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[683,521,37,96,5263,5,9361,9362,1704,629,94,4,65133,422],"class_list":["post-584452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-blackhawks","tag-anton-frondell","tag-blackhawks","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-chicagoblackhawks","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-world-championship","tag-hockey-worlds","tag-iihf-world-championship","tag-ivar-stenberg","tag-matthew-tkachuk","tag-nhl","tag-us-canada-hockey","tag-usa-hockey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116643850075771767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}