This men’s hockey bracket is idiotic.
Sweden was 4th and the lowest seeded team to get a bye to the QF. They will play either Canada or China in the QF. Sure, basically guaranteed to be Canada but what if there were an upset? They’d get the best QF matchup of all teams, despite being he lowest ranked bye team.
The USA was the highest ranked team to get a bye and they are guaranteed to have a much tougher matchup in Germany or Slovakia. The 8th and 9th ranked teams.
So why does 4th place Sweden get to potentially play the 12th ranked team and 1st ranked USA is guaranteed to play 8 or 9? What a moronic system.
Then even more bizarrely, they reseed after the QFs. Why? Why not reseed after the qualification round?
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