Czechs to face Russia Thursday in ice hockey worlds quarter-finals

The Czech Republic will face Russia in the quarter-finals of the World Ice Hockey Championships. The game will take place in Paris at 16:15 on Thursday. If the Czechs progress, they will move to Cologne for a semi-final clash against either Canada or Germany. Josef Jandač’s men lost their final group game on Tuesday, going down 3:1 to Switzerland.