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Olympic hockey tournament quarterfinals set

By Helene Elliott
 and Chris Kuc
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Slovakian forward Miroslav Satan scored the go-ahead goal at 8:41 of the third period Tuesday and Slovakia held on for a 4-3 victory over Norway in a qualifying game at Canada Hockey Place.

Kings center Michal Handzus scored one of three power-play goals for Slovakia, which will face second-seeded and defending champion Sweden in a quarterfinal game today.

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‘Sometimes an ugly win is better than no win,’ Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa said. ‘We have to improve much better and come into the next round against the former champion. It’s going to be much tougher and we have to improve much better than we did tonight.’

Hossa said his whole team was appalled by the hit and head injury suffered by teammate Lubos Bartecko, who was struck by Norway’s Ole Kristian Tollefsen.

‘You hate to see elbows like that in the face. That one was one of the ugliest I’ve ever seen,’ Hossa said. ‘That guy should be suspended for a long time. It’s kind of difficult when you see a teammate going down like that. We talked about ‘Let’s score a bunch of goals on that power play for him’ and that’s what we did. We won that game for Lubos.’

The lineup for Wednesday’s quarterfinals:

Noon: U.S. vs. Switzerland, Canada Hockey Place

4:30 p.m.: Russia vs. Canada, Canada Hockey Place

7 p.m.: Finland vs. Czech Republic, University of British Columbia Thunderbird Arena

9 p.m.: Sweden vs. Slovakia, Canada Hockey Place

-- Helene Elliott and Chris Kuc from Vancouver

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

Chris Kuc

Chris Kuc has been the Chicago Blackhawks beat reporter for the Chicago Tribune since 2007 and during that time has covered the NHL team’s two Stanley Cup championships — and everything in between. Before being assigned the Blackhawks beat, Kuc had myriad jobs at the Tribune, including High School Sports editor, copy editor, design editor and more. Kuc began his Tribune career while still in high school and recently celebrated 30 years at the paper. When he isn’t covering hockey, Kuc enjoys spending time with his family and also losing golf balls at courses throughout Chicagoland.

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