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Originally Posted by DGthe3

Sweden vs Slovakia was played at 21:00 pacific time last night, the score was 4-3.

The top 12 teams were invited to the Olympics. They were divided into 3 pools of 4 for round robin play. Each team played ever other team in their pool, resulting in 3 games each. Durring round robin, 3 points were awarded for a win in regulation time, 2 for an overtime/shootout win, 1 for an overtime/shootout loss, and 0 for a regulation loss.

From the round robin, the top team from each pool, plus the next best team got a first round bye in the playoff. It also determined who played who in the playoffs. The reasoning behind this is to try and avoid having a potential gold medal game in the 2nd round (whoopsie, lol).

They could have simplified things by inviting only 8 or 16 teams, or eliminated the bottom 4 teams after the round robin.

Thanks for explanation