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It was a jam-packed Day 6 of the World Championship with many Devils players suiting up for competition. Ondrej Palat and hometown Czechia faced Denmark in the capital city of Prague in the early game. In the late games, Nico Hischier, Jonas Siegenthaler and Akira Schmid faced off against Great Britain while Simon Nemec and Slovakia battled Poland.

Check out below for recaps and highlights of all the day’s action!

CZECHIA 7, DENMARK 4

CZE: Ondrej Palat

Czechia and Denmark combined for 11 goals, including six in the third period alone, in a wild shootout-style contest. In the end, the hometown Czechs prevailed, 7-4, at Prague Arena.

Devils forward Ondrej Palat scored a goal and added an assist in the victory for Czechia, which improved to 2-1-1-0. Palat, who also was a plus-3 with 17:03 minutes of ice time, gave Czechia a 7-4 edge with 6:52 remaining on his goal.

Denmark hung around for much of the game, even tying the contest, 3-3, five minutes into the third period. Czechia responded with three goals in a 5:14-minute span to take a 6-3 lead. Denmark pulled within two goals at 6-4 before Palat’s tally sealed the contest in his team’s favor.

SWITZERLAND 3, GREAT BRITAIN 0

SUI: Nico Hischier, Jonas Siegenthaler, Akira Schmid

Nico Hischier scored a goal, Jonas Siegenthaler added an assist and goalie Akira Schmid stopped all 15 shots against as Switzerland topped Great Britian, 3-0, Wednesday evening in the World Championship.

Schmid, who posted his first shutout of the tournament, improved to 2-0 with a .75 goals-against average and .952 save percentage.

Hischier opened the game’s scoring with a goal at 3:48 of the first period. Siegenthaler assisted on a first-period goal (Dean Kukan) that made it 2-0 for the Swiss, which improved to 3-1-0-0.

Hischier had three shots and a plus-1 in 14:45 minutes of ice time. He now has four goals and six assists during four games of the tournament.

Siegenthaler also had one shot and a plus-1 in 18:04.

SLOVAKIA 4, POLAND 0

SVK: Simon Nemec

Simon Nemec notched an assist in 19:32 minutes of ice time in Slovakia’s 4-0 victory against Poland Wednesday evening.

Nemec, who also had one shot and a plus-1, now has four assists and five points and a plus-2 while averaging a team-best 20:17 minutes of ice time in four games during the World Championship.

Slovakia improved to 2-1-0-1.

UP NEXT:

Dawson Mercer and Team Canada will face Norway at 2:20 p.m. ET on Thursday. Also, Luke Hughes and the United States face France at 2:20 p.m. ET.