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Sunday was the final preliminary day of the men’s ice hockey tournament at the 2026 Olympics in Milan Cortina.
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Now, it’s off to the qualification round and then the quarterfinals. The top four seeds — Canada, United States, Slovakia and Finland — have clinched byes through to the quarterfinals.
The qualification round matchups Tuesday are:
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No. 5 Switzerland vs. No. 12 Italy (the winner faces Finland)
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No. 6 Germany vs. No. 11 France (the winner faces Slovakia)
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No. 7 Sweden vs. No. 10 Latvia (the winner faces the U.S.)
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No. 8 Czechia vs. No. 9 Denmark (the winner faces Canada)
Read on for the current standings, schedule of games for the day, leading goal scorers and goaltenders, along with best bets from ESPN analysts Sean Allen and Victoria Matiash and the newest Olympic men’s hockey headlines.
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Standings
Tuesday’s games
Best bets
Stat leaders
Current 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-LPoints3-0-0-091-0-0-231-0-0-231-0-0-23Tuesday’s scheduleNote: All times Eastern.
No. 5 Switzerland vs. No. 12 Italy | 6:10 a.m., Peacock
No. 6 Germany vs. No. 11 France | 6:10 a.m., Peacock
No. 8 Czechia vs. No. 9 Denmark | 10:40 a.m., USA/Peacock
No. 7 Sweden vs. No. 10 Latvia | 3:10 p.m., USA/Peacock
Stat leadersScoring leadersPlayer, TeamGPGAP1. Connor McDavid, CAN
Goaltending leadersPlayer, TeamGPWGAASV%1. Connor Hellebuyck, USA
Best bets
Note: Odds by DraftKings Sportsbook, subject to change
Four-team money line parlay (-123): Germany -625, Switzerland -1800, Czechia -325, Sweden -750
The qualification round features increasingly tilted odds, but even the most balanced of the games on Tuesday (Czechia versus Denmark) features money line odds you would typically see in a No. 1 versus No. 32 game toward the end of the NHL season. Italy and France are just playing for pride against the Swiss and Germans, respectively. Denmark and Latvia have just enough of an NHL presence, including in the crease, to engineer a surprise against Czechia and Sweden.
But there is a reason the odds range from about -300 to -1800 for the favorites in these four games. For parlay purposes, even though stacking all four games doesn’t quite get the odds into positive-return territory, mixing in puck lines might be a bit riskier because the strong incentive to run up scores mostly applies to the group stage of play. — Allen
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Four-player anytime goal scorer parlay (+1226): Tim Stutzle -115, Timo Meier -185, David Pastrnak -155, Lucas Raymond +180
If a -123 four-pick parlay doesn’t quite do it for you, an alternative route would be to stack the top-tier finishers. This is likely the final round of the tournament in which the player pool is still less than 50% NHLers. That should leave plenty of room to operate for the superstars still in the tournament.
Stutzle shares the tournament lead with four goals, and Meier is one back with three across three games. Raymond is leading the charge for Sweden, and Pastrnak is due for a big game. These are my four choices from the favorites, but you could swap in Leon Draisaitl (Germany), Nico Hischier (Switzerland), Martin Necas (Czechia) or Adrian Kempe (Sweden), among others, as you see fit. The point is that the stars on each team, especially the ones featured on the power plays, will have a good day at the office. — Allen
Top goal scorer options:
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William Nylander tournament top goal scorer 80-1
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Joel Eriksson Ek tournament top goal scorer 110-1
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Lucas Raymond tournament top goal scorer 300-1
We now know which teams have the opportunity to go on a run and finish the tournament with an extra game played. Because Canada, the U.S., Finland and Slovakia earned byes, only the eight teams playing Tuesday have a path to seven total games. Even if Sweden went on a run and missed a medal by losing the bronze match, they could still potentially get an extra game in.
The argument is a little weaker with three of those games already in the bank and Macklin Celebrini (tournament top goal scorer, +275) with a big head start, but there is still some intrigue. Eriksson Ek already leads the tournament with 20 shots on goal, while Nylander and Raymond are both in the top 10, with 13 shots. All three of them have some of the longest odds to be the tournament goals leader, but that possibility of an extra game still lingers.
Of course, we failed to mention that Sweden’s path to the medal round now involves going through the United States in the quarterfinals. Yes, the path is brutal, but if they survive, they immediately gain leverage on the field. — Allen
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Late goal in loss aids Slovakia; Finland rolls
Finland outduels Sweden; Canada wins
U.S. men’s hockey dominates Latvia in opener
Celebrini leads Canada’s rout in Olympic hockey
Slovakia stuns Finland to open men’s hockey play
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