The first round of the IIHF World Championship Tournament took place Thursday with eight teams fighting for bragging rights as this year’s IIHF World Champion. Of the four quarterfinal games, three of them included players from the Nashville Predators. With six Nashville players in this year’s IIHF games, four of the players saw ice time in the opening round of the tournament phase. Here is how each of the four Predators players performed in Thursday’s first round. Predators center Ryan O’Reilly and Team Canada took down Team USA in the quarterfinals by a score of 4-0. In the game, O’Reilly played 19 minutes and 38 seconds on the ice and won eight of his 16 faceoffs that he took part in. While he did not score a goal, he did assist on a Connor Brown goal that put Canada up 3-0. O’Reilly had one shot on goal and was +2 in the +/- category for the game. Predators goalie prospect Jack Ivankovic did not see any time in net. He has yet to appear in a game for Team Canada in the IIHF game this year.…