The placement of in this round means only one thing, that IIHF is counting with Russia & Belarus return...
Hungary is 19th in the ranking. We know that teams ranked up to 17th plays the Final Qualifying Round ( is 14th) so as such if BLR was not eligible to play another nation would have taken its place, and since the next one is (18th) which is obviously automatically qualified to the games as Host country, the next one to move up to the Final Qualifiying round would have been Hungary, so no need to be a nuclear physicist to understand IIHF is already counting with to qualify directly to the Olympics and to play the FInal Qualifying Round which would be played in Slovakia...
Simple maths
Final Qualifying Round is likely going to be
D- SVK, BLR, KAZ, 3rd Qualifier
E- LAT, FRA, AUT, 2nd Qualifier
F- DEN, NOR, SLO, 1st Qualifier
Still, hope dies last...people use to say... so, still we (I) hope this scenario will not occur at the end and Slovakia will qualify directly