Our free Slovakia vs. Germany predictions for Wednesday, February 18 are backing the Germans to fly out of the gate again.

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,

The Swedes won the game 5-3, thanks in part to two goals from Elias Pettersson and a goal and two assists from Lucas Raymond. Jacob Markstrom made 29 saves for Sweden (2-0-0-1) in

Plus the mystery of Filip Forsberg's ice time, the young stars leading the American women's team, and the Canadian men's nuclear line.

Who is Samuel Hlavaj? Here's what to know about the Slovakia men's hockey goaltender who set a country record for saves at the Winter Olympics.

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.

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.

Against all odds, and despite losing 5-3 to Sweden, Slovakia won Group B and is now waiting to learn who they'll face in the quarter-finals. Unsurprisingly, Juraj Slafkovsky played a key role and he's now leading all players in points at the tournament.