In group B, where Latvia also starts, Sweden defeated Great Britain with 6: 0 (5: 0, 0: 0, 1: 0).
The Swedes won in the first third. Already in the 13th second Rasmuss Asplunds reached 1: 0, but in the 14th minute the result was already 4: 0.
In the 54th minute, Anton Bengtson threw the sixth puck into the goal of the British team – 6: 0.
Bengtson (2 + 1) and defender Rasmus Dalins (1 + 2) scored three points for the Swedes, but Asplunds scored two goals.
In the goal, Magnus Helber repelled all 16 British shots.
The next game for Latvia is scheduled for Thursday with the Czech Republic.
Finland and Sweden are at the top of subgroup B with nine points in three matches. The third place with five points is taken by the USA, the Czech Republic has four points in three matches, and Austria and Latvia have three points in three matches. Norway have scored two points in three games and Britain has earned one point in three games.
In the Group A match in Helsinki, Switzerland beat Kazakhstan 3: 2 (0: 0, 2: 0, 1: 2).
In the 24th minute, Switzerland was nominated by Deniss Malgins, but the difference was doubled 34 seconds later by Dario Zimions.
In the 46th minute, Jesse Blacker beat the Swiss goalkeeper Zandro Eschlimani in the minority, reducing the gap to 1: 2.
In the 56th minute, Patriss Herzog reached 3: 1, but 128 seconds before the end of the match, the Swiss goalkeeper made a mistake for the second time, this time after putting the puck from a narrow angle between Valar Orehov’s shot – 3: 2 in favor of Switzerland. In the loss of the first goal, the puck burst through the armpit.
Ešlimanis rebounded 12 out of 14 shots, while Andrejs Šutovs rebounded 40 out of 43 shots at the end of the field, finishing with a 93.02 percent rebound.
It has already been reported that in the first game of the day in this group, Denmark beat Italy with 2: 1 (1: 0, 0: 1, 1: 0).
In Group A, nine points in three matches are for Canada and Switzerland, and six points for Germany and Denmark. France and Slovakia scored three points. Italy and Kazakhstan are without points.
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) suspended all Russian and Belarusian teams and clubs from competitions organized by the IIHF. Russia and Belarus will be replaced by France and Austria, which ranked the highest selection of countries not expected to play in the top division.
The 16 teams participating in the tournament are divided into two groups, eight units each, which guarantees seven games for each team in the subgroup competition. After one round of group matches, the four best teams in each subgroup will continue to fight for medals in the quarterfinals, while the weakest teams in the tournament will leave the strongest division last year, with Slovenia and Hungary in the top 16 next year.
The 2022 World Championships in Finland will take place from 13 to 29 May.
