The third period of the quarterfinals of the World Hockey Championship between Canada and Denmark was dominated by a team that beat his opponent 22-10 and scored a couple of goals that broke less than two minutes apart.
But it was not 28 times Canada champion, led by Sidney Crosby and loaded with the best talent of the NHL, which showed the murderous instinct on Thursday in a boxen sand by Jyske Bank.
The valuable coanfrerion of the Denmark tournament, which needed a shooting victory over Germany the last preliminary action of the round only to reach the quarterfinals, saw Canada with a 2-1 victory to delight his local fans.
Canada was eliminated despite having a team with several players from their championship list in the confrontation of this year’s 4 nations, including Crosby, 2024 MVP of the NHL Nathan Mackinnon and goalkeeper Jordan Binnington.
“We had looks [at the net]But they weren’t the looks we wanted to have, “said Canada Dean Evason coach.” We did not get inside and we did not do the things we all did to succeed.
“He bite us again, and obviously this is a devastating loss. We need to be better in all areas, but unfortunately we were not. It is difficult to swallow, and it is very frustrating and disappointing to get so far and fall short.”
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Denmark scored 2 goals in the last 2 minutes of his quarterfinal game to defeat Canada 2-1, and eliminate them from the World Hockey IIHF championship.
With Canada clinging to an advantage of a goal, the Danes took goalkeeper Frederik said for an additional attacker with just under two remaining minutes. The movement was worth it when Nikolaj Ehlers, playing in his second game of the tournament after joining Denmark after the elimination of Winnipeg’s jets from the NHL playoffs, shot through the traffic that eluded Binnington.
With a confidence wave, the Danes completed the discomfort when Nick Olesen picked up a rebound and scored with 49 seconds, sending Denmark to the semifinals for the first time.
“[The Danes] I obtained some impulse of the draw goal, and it was a broken play [on the winning goal] That ended at the bottom of our network, “said Crosby.” They pressed quite strong in the third period, and we were in a good place after taking the lead, but things became quite fast. “
Canada’s defense, Travis Sanheim, finally resolved Sanheim at 5:17 of the third period, but the Danes did not go back. Binnington was called to make several salvations while Canada maintained his faint leadership before the Danes finally exploded.
“[The Danes] They blocked many shots, and found a way to get a couple [goals] Afternoon, “Sanheim said.” We have to give them credit, they played hard the whole game and the crowd definitely helped them. It is an unfortunate and disappointing loss. “
Denmark seemed to open the score in the second period when Morten Poulen scored in a getaway, but the goal was rejected due to a gloves pass.
Canada reached the quarterfinals after finishing first in group A, ending the preliminary round with a 5-3 high victory over the Sweden coanfrerion in Stockholm.
“There is a lot of disappointment,” said Crosby. “We improved as the tournament progressed, and although I don’t think we were our best tonight, we could find a way to give us an advantage. It is disappointing because we have such a good group, but unfortunately we couldn’t do it.”
The Danes will face Switzerland, which Austria 6-0 enrupted Thursday, in the semifinals on Saturday. The United States will face Sweden in the other semifinal.
United States 5, Finland 2
The two goals of power of Conor Garland helped the United States win Finland 5-2 in Stockholm to reach the semifinals.
Following 2-1 in the average period, Americans needed 71 seconds to change things when the Zeev Buium defense put home a rebound at 23:53 before Garland’s second goal restored the leadership of the United States.
“I really liked how we stayed with him and built as the game progressed,” American chief coach Ryan Warsofsky said. “We had a bit slow start, but we really found our game as time passed. I give our boys a lot of credit while they beat an excellent hockey team today.”
Garland had given the US. Uu. An advantage of 1-0 4:50 in the game when he received a cross-ice pass from Logan Cooley to beat goalkeeper Juuse Saros from the right circle.
Finland tied him 1-1 in the power goal of Eeli Opecvanen. Patrik Puistola scored from the slot in another power play 7:46 in the second period for Finland to take a 2-1 advantage.
The Americans added two more goals to the third. Shane Pinto added the fourth 5:52 to the final period and Captain Clayton Keller finished the score on an empty network.
The American team has not won a medal since it took bronze in 2021.
The Finns have been waiting for a medal since they won gold in 2022.
Previously in Herning, last year’s runner-up, Switzerland marched to the semifinals when blocking Austria 6-0
