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The Power Rankings are for the enjoyment of IIHF.com readers, and reflect the progress of teams during the IIHF World Championship. They are distinct from the official IIHF World Ranking.

Power Rankings (as of May 6)

1.		RUSSIA Mother Russia is the greatest! Soon the gold will be ours.
2.		CANADA Must win gold. Must win gold. Gold and getting better each day, that's all we think about.
3.		SWEDEN It certainly would be nice if we won gold, wouldn't it?
4.		FINLAND Why do we never win gold? Something always goes wrong...
5.		CZECH REPUBLIC It's so depressing when we don't win gold, like a Kafka novel
6.		USA Man, these European cities are beautiful!
7.		SLOVAKIA If Peter Bondra came out of retirement, we'd win gold
8.		SWITZERLAND If we didn't have so much gold in our bank vaults, we'd probably want gold more
9.		BELARUS Hey, we'll take any old medal...we're not picky
10.		LATVIA If we win gold, our fans will go insane! If we play relegation, our fans will go insane!
11.		NORWAY We're known more for black metal than for gold
12.		DENMARK Hans Christian Andersen's Happy Prince was covered with gold -- unlike us
13.		FRANCE With our great literature, cuisine, and romantic prowess, we 'ave no need of this vulgar...'ow do you call it?...gold
14.		GERMANY As the hosts, we're guaranteed a berth in the gold medal game...wait, we're not???
15.		ITALY What's gold?
16.		KAZAKHSTAN Yeah, we were wondering about that too

Power Rankings (as of May 6)

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