Winter Olympics Ice Hockey: Men's Quarterfinals - Preview, Complete Schedule and How to watch

The men's ice hockey tournament at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 is down to eight nations with quarter-final action set for Wednesday (16 February).

Four teams - the United States, reigning champions ROC, Finland and Sweden - earned direct berths to the quarter-finals.

The remaining four - Canada, Switzerland, Slovakia and Denmark - had to come through qualification play-off games on Tuesday.

Read on for what to look out for, a full game schedule and how to watch.

Wednesday 16 February (all times local to Beijing):

12:10 - United States v. Slovakia14:00 - ROC v. Denmark16:40 - Finland v. Switzerland21:10 - Sweden v. Canada

Despite NHL players sitting out the Games, the United States' young squad rolled through group play including notching its first Olympic win over Canada since 2010.

Their final group match-up was close in the third period as Germany scored late but the U.S. 3-2, and it's an experience Sean Farrell, who scored four in the opening win over China, hopes will serve them well.

"Games are just going to be tighter and more defensive, and we're going to need to bear down and be able to weather the storm at the end of the games," said Farrell, "whether it's five on six, or late power plays and stuff like that."

Quarter-final opponents Slovakia are riding high after soundly defeating PyeongChang 2018 silver medallists Germany 4-0 in Tuesday's play-off game.

“Tonight was a great game for us and especially our goalie played well. We helped him a lot," said Marko Dano. “Hopefully tomorrow, we can surprise one of the top teams and advance to the next round.”

Look out of Slovakia's 17-year-old forward Juraj Slafkovsky who has scored four goals so far and is attracting admiring glances ahead of the 2022 NHL