Olympics 2026 men's hockey: Standings, stats, schedule, more - ESPN

Sunday was the final preliminary day of the men's ice hockey tournament at the 2026 Olympics in Milan Cortina.

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:

No. 5 Switzerland vs. No. 12 Italy (the winner faces Finland)

No. 6 Germany vs. No. 11 France (the winner faces Slovakia)

No. 7 Sweden vs. No. 10 Latvia (the winner faces the U.S.)

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 latest Olympic men's hockey headlines.

Greg Wyshynski breaks down the U.S. men's hockey team's potential path to Olympic gold.

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Standings
Tuesday's games
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Stat leaders

Note: All times Eastern.

No. 5 Switzerland 3, No. 12 Italy 0
No. 6 Germany 5, No. 11 France 1
No. 8 Czechia 3, No. 9 Denmark 2
No. 7 Sweden 5, No. 10 Latvia 1

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