Slovakia, Sweden and Olympic
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Our free Slovakia vs. Germany predictions for Wednesday, February 18 are backing the Germans to fly out of the gate again.
Team Slovakia clinched Group B despite losing 5-3 to Sweden after Finland beat Italy 11-0. Here's how the tiebreaker process worked.
Slovakia upset Finland on Wednesday, setting the stage for what could be a wild tournament in an age of increasing international parity.
The war in neighbouring Ukraine feels distant to many in the Slovak city of Nitra but the local council is preparing for the worst and revamping its Cold War-era nuclear fallout shelters. However, every year since Ukraine was invaded in 2022,
The Czech Republic is offering small volumes of oil to Slovakia through an eastward flow of the Druzhba pipeline after westward flows from Ukraine were stopped after an attack on the pipeline last month,
A late goal put Slovakia into the Olympic quarterfinals as the winner of Group B in a tiebreaker, even after losing 5-3 to Sweden.
In fact, it was Slovakia's third goal, by Dalibor Dvorsky with 39 seconds left in the third period that led to the wild celebration after the Group B preliminary round game.
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Olympics-Ice hockey-Canada ease past Swiss, Finland beat Sweden, Slovakia, Czechs notch wins
By Amy Tennery and Trevor Stynes MILAN, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Canada put on another ice hockey highlight reel on Friday, beating Switzerland 5-1, and Finland bested Nordic rivals Sweden 4-1 to get their Olympic title defence back on track,