Olympic men’s hockey daily: Semifinal matchups are set

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Olympics 2026 men’s hockey: Standings, stats, schedule, moreplayUSA men’s hockey preparing for quarterfinals game (0:58)Emily Kaplan details Team USA men’s hockey’s preparations for the quarterfinal game. (0:58)ESPN staffFeb 18, 2026, 05:45 PM ETMultiple Authors

Heart rates across the hockey-loving world were racing all day on Wednesday, as three out of four quarterfinal matchups in the 2026 Olympic men’s hockey tournament went to overtime.

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Here are the results of the mayhem:

Canada 4, Czechia 3 (OT)
United States 2, Sweden 1 (OT)
Slovakia 6, Germany 2
Finland 3, Switzerland 2 (OT)

The top four seeds all move on, with both semifinal games scheduled for Friday: No. 1 seed Canada vs. No. 4 seed Finland and 2-seed U.S. vs. 3-seed Slovakia.

Read on for the schedule of games for the day, leading goal scorers and goaltenders, and the just in Olympic men’s hockey headlines.

Jump ahead:
Group standings
Friday’s games
Stat leaders

Standings

Group A StandingsTeamW-OTW-OTL-LPoints3-0-0-091-1-0-151-0-1-140-0-0-20Group B StandingsTeamW-OTW-OTL-LPoints2-0-0-162-0-0-162-0-0-160-0-0-30

Group C StandingsTeamW-OTW-OTL-LPoints3-0-0-091-0-0-231-0-0-231-0-0-23Friday’s scheduleNote: All times Eastern.

No. 1 seed Canada vs. No. 4 seed Finland, 10:40 a.m.
No. 2 seed United States vs. No. 3 seed Slovakia, 3:10 p.m.

Stat leaders

Scoring leadersPlayer, TeamGPGAP1. Connor McDavid, CAN 4 2 9 11 2. Macklin Celebrini, CAN 4 5 4 9 3. Lucas Raymond, SWE 5 1 8 9 4. Martin Necas, CZE 5 3 5 8 5. Juraj Slafkovsky, SVK 4 3 4 7 6. Timo Meier, SWI 5 3 4 7 7. Leon Draisaitl, GER 5 2 5 7 8. Tim Stutzle, GER 5 4 2 6 T9. Dalibor Dvorsky, SVK 4 3 3 6 T9. Nathan MacKinnon, CAN 4 3 3 6 T9. Auston Matthews, USA 4 3 3 6

Goaltending leadersPlayer, TeamGPWGAASV%1. Connor Hellebuyck, USA 3 3 0.98 .958 2. Leonardo Genoni, SWI 4 3 1.47 .946 3. Juuse Saros, FIN 4 3 1.49 .938 4. Jacob Markstrom, SWE 3 2 1.97 .935 5. Samuel Hlavaj, SVK 3 2 2.67 .932 6. Jordan Binnington, CAN 3 3 1.65 .922 7. Frederik Andersen, DEN 3 1 2.75 .913 8. Philipp Grubauer, GER 4 2 2.79 .912 9. Damian Clara, ITA 4 0 5.13 .911 10. Filip Gustavsson, SWE 2 1 2.5 .889

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