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Associated Press
25-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
Sweden beats Denmark 6-2 to take bronze at ice hockey worlds
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Mikael Backlund and Marcus Johansson scored two goals each as Sweden beat Denmark 6-2 to take the bronze medal at the ice hockey world championship on Sunday. It was the second straight third-place finish for Sweden while fourth place was the best-ever result for Denmark. With a star-studded team of NHL players, Sweden was hoping to end a drought dating back to 2018 at a tournament jointly staged in the Swedish capital and the Danish city of Herning. Lucas Raymond and Mika Zibanejad also scored for the hosts while Denmark got the goals from Nick Olesen and Nikolaj Ehlers. Despite the loss, it was a tournament to remember for Denmark. The Danes opened the competition with three straight losses and squeezed into the quarterfinals by prevailing over Germany 2-1 in a shootout in the final group stage game. Then the team made history by reaching the semifinals for the first time by stunning a Canada team led by Sidney Crosby 2-1 in the quarterfinals. It was Denmark's second win over Canada after also winning 3-2 at the 2022 worlds. Switzerland proved too strong for the Danes in the semis, routing them 7-0. Denmark added to the successes of less-accomplished hockey nations in the 2023 edition of the tournament when Germany took silver for its first medal since 1953 and Latvia won bronze for its first top-three finish. The United States and Switzerland meet in the gold medal game later Sunday. ___ AP sports:
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
WATCH: Helena High's Madalyn Todorovich wins long jump at state track
Sabres Notes: Thompson Trickin At The Worlds, Amerks Take On Laval Team USA had a harrowing time with Norway in their fourth game at the 2025 IIHF World Championships in Herning, Denmark on Wednesday, as they jumped out to a 4-1 first period lead, and extended the lead to 5-1 early in the middle frame, but the underdog Norweigans rallied with four straight to tie it late in regulation before the Americans salvaged a 6-5 victory. 3:21 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Denmark stuns Canada, US beats Finland to reach semifinals at ice hockey worlds
HERNING, Denmark (AP) — Nick Olesen scored with 49 seconds left and Denmark stunned Canada 2-1 at the ice hockey world championship Thursday to advance to the semifinals. 'I have no words, it's unbelievable,' Olesen said after Denmark reached the last four for the first time. 'The fans here were cheering for us the whole game and they helped us get the win. It's crazy.' Denmark, in the sold-out arena in Herning, had tied it with 2:17 remaining when Nikolaj Ehlers scored through traffic in only his second game at the tournament following his Winnipeg Jets being eliminated from the NHL playoffs. The Danes had pulled goaltender Frederik Dichow for the extra attacker before Ehlers struck. Canada outshot Denmark 30-11 in the first two periods but couldn't solve Dichow, who made 39 saves in all, until 5:17 into the third when captain Sidney Crosby fed Travis Sanheim to score into the roof of the net. Canada was outshot 22-10 in the final period, though. Denmark has only two NHL players at the worlds, while Canada has only two who don't play at the NHL. 'I'm disappointed,' Crosby said. 'We got better as the tournament went on. I don't think tonight was necessarily our best but we still found a way to give ourselves a lead ... but it turned pretty quick.' Crosby returned to the worlds after 10 years when he captained Canada to gold. He was expected to do it again with teammates like Nathan MacKinnon. Canada is the most successful nation at the tournament with 28 titles but has finished empty handed in the last two editions after it was beaten by Sweden in the bronze medal game last year. It was only the second win for Denmark over Canada at the worlds. The semifinals are set for Saturday: Denmark will play Switzerland; and the United States will face Sweden. Earlier on Thursday, the U.S. advanced by beating Finland 5-2 backed by Conor Garland's two power-play goals Trailing 2-1 in the middle period, the Americans needed 71 seconds to turn things around when defenseman Zeev Buium put home a rebound at 23:53 before Garland's second goal restored the U.S. lead. 'I really liked how we stayed with it and built as the game wore on,' U.S. head coach Ryan Warsofsky said. 'We got off to a bit of a slow start, but really found our game as time wore on. I give our guys a lot of credit as they beat an excellent hockey team today.' Garland had given the U.S. a 1-0 lead 4:50 into the game when he received a cross-ice pass from Logan Cooley to beat goalie Juuse Saros from the right circle. Finland tied it at 1-1 on Eeli Tolvanen's power-play goal. Patrik Puistola scored from the slot on another power play 7:46 into the second period for Finland to take a 2-1 lead. The Americans added two more goals in the third. Shane Pinto scored the fourth 5:52 into the final period and captain Clayton Keller finished the scoring into an empty net. The U.S. team hasn't won a medal since taking bronze in 2021. The Finns have been waiting for a medal since they won gold in 2022. Sweden delighted the home crowd in the Avicii Arena in Stockholm by eliminating defending champion Czech Republic with a 5-2 victory. Lucas Raymond and Leo Carlsson led the co-host with two goals each. Earlier in Herning, last year's runner-up Switzerland advanced by blanking Austria 6-0. __ AP sports: The Associated Press
National Post
22-05-2025
- Sport
- National Post
Denmark stuns Canada at worlds, Nylander's Swedes top Kampf's Czechs
Article content Woe Canada, make that two huge maple leaf letdowns in five days. Article content Article content After Toronto's playoff-cursed NHL entry dropped another Great White North entry from the Stanley Cup tournament, star-studded Team Canada was stunned 2-1 by underdog Denmark Thursday, eliminated in the quarterfinal stage of the world men's hockey championship. Article content A group that included Nathan MacKinnon and Sidney Crosby couldn't click on four power-play chances through the game. When Travis Sanheim did score, the Danes didn't fold, while Nicolaj Ehlers and Nick Olesen scored in the final 2:17, Olesen in the final minute on Jordan Binnington. That sent the arena in Herning, Denmark, into a frenzy and a lusty version of the national anthem followed. Article content Frederik Dichow made 38 saves for Denmark, which will meet Switzerland in one semifinal, while the United States takes on Sweden. Canada had played all its games in co-host Stockholm and clearly struggled on the unfamiliar ice of a converted convention centre where Denmark had been for a couple of weeks. Article content Canada lost in the quarterfinals at this event for the first time in 10 tries going back to 2015. Article content 'They had us on our heels and we didn't respond the right way,' Canadian forward Ryan O'Reilly told TSN. 'Tough for us travelling here on a back-to-back (after facing Sweden in Stockholm) and we didn't have our normal jump. But we had a chance to win. Article content 'We have guys like Flower here (retiring alternate goalie Marc-Andre Fleury) and we wanted to win it for him. We let them hang around. You put this jersey on, you expect to win. No one feels good now.' Article content It's a top-four finish for the first time in Denmark's history, but to claim a medal, the team will have to win at least one game in Stockholm on the weekend. Article content Article content 'Just disappointing, we had a great group here,' Crosby said. 'We had all the things to make a deeper run.' Article content The Canadian management group was headed by former Leaf-turned-Pittsburgh Penguins GM Kyle Dubas. Article content Article content WILLY WIN A MEDAL? Article content In the end it was William Nylander, not Maple Leafs teammate David Kampf, who was rewarded for a long haul flight to Europe to play for his country at the worlds. Article content Nylander didn't score in Sweden's 5-2 quarterfinal win Thursday over defending champion Czechia, but wasn't needed in that regard and gets to play again. Kampf, who was itching to keep going after being used in just one playoff game by Toronto, saw some rare power play action Thursday. Article content Lucas Raymond scored twice for the Swedes, and former Leafs defenceman Rasmus Sandin had two assists. Nylander was placed right on the first line with centre William Karlsson and Raymond.
CNA
22-05-2025
- Sport
- CNA
Ice hockey-Denmark's 'Miracle Of Midtjylland' sends Canada crashing out
HERNING, Denmark : Denmark's miraculous comeback from a goal down to beat superpower Canada in the Midtjylland town of Herning to reach the semi-finals of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship was a result so seismic that not even the Danish players could believe what they had done. A goal down with time running out, the Danes scored twice in the final three minutes on Thursday, including Nick Olesen's last-minute winner, to complete a stunning comeback that will live long in the annals of Danish sport. "It's completely surreal. I'm in a bubble right now, it feels like a dream. We've beaten, in my opinion, the best national team in the world. For every Danish ice hockey player, they have about a thousand," Danish captain Jesper Jensen Aabo told national broadcaster DR. "It shouldn't be possible, to be completely honest... I don't think there was anyone in this arena who believed it before the game but we believed in the locker room. We grabbed the tiny straw that was there, and we've made ice hockey history." The Canadians came into the game as overwhelming favourites but the Danes shredded their lofty reputation with strong defending and a never-say-die attitude. "It's hard to put into words. It's not so much about my goal, it's about the fact that we all fought our butts off for the whole 60 minutes. We beat Canada and that's the biggest thing in my career," winning goal-scorer Olesen said. "Hearing the roar that went through the hall when I scored, I can only repeat that it is probably the greatest thing I have experienced in my ice hockey career," he added. The reward for the Danes is a last-four game against Switzerland in Stockholm on Saturday, with Sweden facing Team USA in the other semi-final.
