Denmark eliminates Canadian men in quarterfinal shocker at world hockey championship

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 22, 2025 2:16 PM EDT | Last Updated: 34 minutes ago

The 3rd play of the satellite hockey title quarterfinal betwixt Canada and Denmark was dominated by a squad that outshot its hostile 22-10 and scored a brace of game-breaking goals little than 2 minutes apart.

But it was not 28-time champion Canada, captained by Sidney Crosby and loaded with apical NHL talent, that showed the slayer instinct Thursday astatine a rocking Jyske Bank Boxen arena.

Plucky tourney co-host Denmark, which needed a shootout triumph implicit Germany connected the past time of preliminary circular enactment conscionable to scope the quarterfinals, saw Canada disconnected with a 2-1 triumph to the delight of their location fans.

Canada was eliminated contempt having a squad with respective players from its title roster astatine this year's 4 Nations Face-Off, including Crosby, 2024 NHL MVP Nathan MacKinnon and goaltender Jordan Binnington.

"We had looks [at the net], but they were not the looks we wanted to have," Canada manager Dean Evason said. "We did not get to the inside, and we did not bash the things that we did each tourney to person success.

"It came backmost to wound us, and evidently this is simply a devastating loss. We needed to beryllium amended successful each areas, but unluckily we were not. It is pugnacious to swallow, and it is precise frustrating and disappointing to travel this acold and autumn short."

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With Canada clinging to a one-goal lead, the Danes pulled goaltender Frederik Dichow for an other attacker with conscionable nether 2 minutes remaining. The determination paid disconnected erstwhile Nikolaj Ehlers — playing successful conscionable his 2nd crippled of the tourney aft joining Denmark pursuing the elimination of the Winnipeg Jets from the NHL playoffs — fired a changeable done postulation that eluded Binnington.

Riding a question of confidence, the Danes completed the upset erstwhile Nick Olesen picked up a rebound and scored with 49 seconds remaining, sending Denmark to the semifinals for the archetypal time.

"[The Danes] got immoderate momentum from the tying goal, and it was a breached play [on the winning goal] that ended up successful the backmost of our net," Crosby said. "They pressed beauteous hard successful the 3rd period, and we were successful a bully spot aft we took the lead, but things turned beauteous quickly."

Canada defenceman Travis Sanheim yet solved Sanheim astatine 5:17 of the 3rd period, but the Danes would not backmost down. Binnington was called upon to marque respective saves arsenic Canada held onto its tenuous pb earlier the Danes yet broke through.

"[The Danes] blocked a batch of shots, and they recovered a mode to get a mates [goals] late," Sanheim said. "We person to springiness them credit, they played hard the full crippled and the assemblage decidedly helped them out. It is conscionable an unfortunate and disappointing loss."

Denmark appeared to unfastened the scoring successful the 2nd play erstwhile Morten Poulsen scored connected a breakaway, but the extremity was disallowed owed to a mitt pass.

Canada rolled into the quarterfinals aft finishing archetypal successful Group A, ending the preliminary circular with an emphatic 5-3 triumph implicit co-host Sweden successful Stockholm.

"There is simply a batch of disappointment," Crosby said. "We got amended arsenic the tourney went on, and portion I bash not deliberation we were our champion tonight, we were capable to find a mode to springiness ourselves a lead. It is disappointing due to the fact that we person specified a large group, but unluckily we could not get it done."

The Danes volition look Switzerland, which routed Austria 6-0 connected Thursday, successful the semifinals connected Saturday. The United States volition instrumentality connected Sweden successful the different semifinal.

United States 5, Finland 2

Conor Garland's 2 power-play goals helped the United States bushed Finland 5-2 successful Stockholm to scope the semifinals.

Trailing 2-1 successful the mediate period, the Americans needed 71 seconds to crook things astir erstwhile defenceman Zeev Buium enactment location a rebound astatine 23:53 earlier Garland's 2nd extremity restored the U.S. lead.

"I truly liked however we stayed with it and built arsenic the crippled wore on," U.S. caput manager Ryan Warsofsky said. "We got disconnected to a spot of a dilatory start, but truly recovered our crippled arsenic clip wore on. I springiness our guys a batch of recognition arsenic they bushed an fantabulous hockey squad today."

Garland had fixed the U.S. a 1-0 pb 4:50 into the crippled erstwhile helium received a cross-ice walk from Logan Cooley to bushed goalie Juuse Saros from the close circle.

Finland tied it astatine 1-1 connected Eeli Tolvanen's power-play goal. Patrik Puistola scored from the slot connected different powerfulness play 7:46 into the 2nd play for Finland to instrumentality a 2-1 lead.

The Americans added 2 much goals successful the third. Shane Pinto added the 4th 5:52 into the last play and skipper Clayton Keller finished the scoring into an bare net.

The U.S. squad hasn't won a medal since taking bronze successful 2021.

The Finns person been waiting for a medal since they won golden successful 2022.

Earlier successful Herning, last year's runner-up Switzerland marched to the semifinals by blanking Austria 6-0