In the game for third place, the two World Cup cups Sweden and Denmark offered the audience in Stockholm a goal-rich encounter. On Sunday (25.05.25) the Swedish national team clearly kept the upper hand and secured third place with a 6: 2 (0: 0, 3: 0, 3: 2).
The Danes, which Germany left behind in the preliminary round and then sensationally thrown Canada out of the tournament in the quarter-finals, missed their first World Cup medal.
Double strike from Backlund preliminary
The NHL professionals Mikael Backlund (26/30), Marcus Johansson (38./49.), Lucas Raymond (43.) and Mika Zibanejad (56.) met for the Swedes, who had failed in the semi-finals crash on the USA (2: 6). It has already been the 19th bronze medal for Tre Kronor, and third place had also jumped out last year.
The team won the last title so far seven years ago. Nick Olesen (44.) and Nikolaj Ehlers (47th) gave the Danes only briefly. In the preliminary round, Denmark was clearly inferior to Switzerland (0: 7).