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 20)
1.
RUSSIA REVENGE!!!
2.
SWEDEN Our Vikings out-Vikinged Denmark's Vikings
3.
CZECH REPUBLIC Final four...we'll take it!
4.
GERMANY “Fussball gut, Eishockey besser!” - Beckenbauer changes his mind
5.
SWITZERLAND Where did all those goals we scored on Canada and the Czechs go?
6.
FINLAND When Jussi Jokinen doesn't score in the shootout, you know you're having a bad day
7.
CANADA Yeah, but we won the Olympics, and the 2002 Olympics, AND the 1952 Olympics!
8.
DENMARK All good tournaments must come to an end
9.
NORWAY Top in PIM, bottom in attendance = Ouch!
10.
BELARUS Next time, our defencemen must shoot from centre ice more often
11.
LATVIA With all this talk of who's tired and who ain't, Masalskis earned it
12.
SLOVAKIA Hanlon surprised journalists when he sang Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Don't Cry For Me Belarus”
13.
USA What if we'd dressed the Hanson Brothers?
14.
FRANCE We got it done without Philippe Bozon
15.
ITALY It's business, not personal
16.
KAZAKHSTAN Watch out for us when we host in 2011 (the Asian Winter Games, that is)