The hosts of the ice hockey World Cup can continue to dream of the home win. While Sweden switched off with a 5: 2 (3: 0, 1: 1, 1: 1) defending champion Czech Republic, Denmark celebrated a dramatic victory against Canada.
Canada despaired at 1: 2 (0: 0, 0: 0, 1: 2) to Denmark goalkeeper Frederik Dichow for a long time. The goalkeeper also had Germany’s international on Tuesday in the 2-1 win after penalty shooting and the synonymous preliminary round of national coach Harold Kreis.
After the goal of Travis Sanheim, everything looked like a success of the high favorite (46th minute). However, as against Germany, the first NHL star Nicolaj Ehlers, who came into being at the beginning of the week, equalized to the northern European (58th). Nick Olesen made the much acclaimed winning goal 50 seconds before the end before 10,500 fans.
Switzerland leaves Austria no chance
Meanwhile, the Swiss won 6: 0 (3: 0, 2: 0, 1: 0) against Austria and are allowed to continue dreaming of the first gold medal. In 2024, Switzerland had reached the final for the third time, but had to be content with second place as before.
The alpine duel started strange: after almost a minute, the lights went out in parts of the Halling Hall, which is why the referees interrupted the game. After a delay, it continued – with not entirely complete lighting. Christoph Bertschy (7th), Timo Meier (12th), Ken Jäger (15th), Kevin Fiala (24th), Sandro Schmid (25th) and Simon Knak (52nd) made it clear.
Austria had come back to a World Cup at a World Cup for the first time after 31 years. In 1994 the team in Italy also reached the quarter -finals and thus thrown the German team out of the tournament, but then resigned against Finland with a 0:10.
Olympic champion Finland also had to say goodbye to the fight for the World Cup title. Against the United States, the four -time world champion also lost 2: 5 (1: 1, 1: 2, 0: 2) and failed for the third time in a row.