How to Watch Austria vs. France: Stream 2025 IIHF World Championship Live, TV Channel

Austria, France enter desperation mode in Group A as they meet on Thursday at the IIHF World Championship

Austria (1-3-0, 2 points) and France (0-3-1, 1 point) face an uphill climb to reach the knockout stage at the 2025 IIHF World Championship. The teams meet on Friday in a Group A matchup at Avicii Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, with their backs to the wall. A loss eliminates France from medal contention as it sits seventh in the eight-team group, six points behind fourth-place Slovakia and already with a loss to the Slovaks. Austria stands in sixth, five points out of the fourth and final position to advance to the quarterfinals.

How to Watch Austria vs. France in 2025 IIHF World Championship Today:

Game Date: Friday, May 16, 2025

Game Time: 10 a.m. ET

TV: NHL Network

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Austria led powerful Canada 1-0 after one period on Thursday, but the Canadians onslaught in the Austrian zone wore down the defense in a 5-1 loss. Austria was outshot 52-16 on the night, taking the lead 11:20 into the game when Vinzenz Rohrer (ZSC Lions, Switzerland) found the net. Canada took its first lead at the 13:10 mark of the second period and never looked back. Marco Kasper (Detroit Red Wings) has two of the team’s seven goals in the tournament and shared the scoring lead of three points with Peter Schneider (Red Bull Salzberg, Austria).

France comes off a 2-1 loss to Slovakia on Wednesday, surrendering the eventual winning goal 9:13 into the third period. Louis Boudon (Nybro Vikings, Sweden) tied the game at 14:34 of the second period after Slovakia got the games first goal a little more than five minutes earlier. Antoine Keller made 33 saves in the game, which ended with a scrum that included a game misconduct and a fighting major for forward Jordann Perret (Mountfield, Czechia). Five players have one goal each for France, with Perret, captain Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (Ajoie, Switzerland) and Tim Bozon (Lausanne, Switzerland) notching two poitns thus far.

Austria hasn’t medaled at the World Championships since winning a bronze in 1947 and also took the third-place hardware in 1931. France’s best finish at the tournament was a sixth-place mark in 1930.

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