MS in hockey 2025: Maple leaves fell. Canada buying tickets home
Herning. Miracles happen! Denmark hockey players took care of a huge sensation and in the quarterfinals MS in hockey 2025 conquered on home ice Canada 2: 1. For the first time in history, they will play medals.
About an hour after the match, you won’t find a lot of information on Canadian websites. Central reports are news from NHL or women’s hockey.
The message that Canada is leaving the World Championship after a loss that could be described as one of the biggest surprises in the history of international hockey is far from being most read.
I am disappointed, he said the crosby
If we turned the teams into millions of dollars, on ice in Herning, there were less than 8 against 106. This is exactly how much the players of the individual earned this season.
Canada dominated the ice from the beginning. Denmark shot 18: 4 in the first period, in the second 12: 7. However, the first goal was scored at 46 minutes. « Waiting is over, » wrote the official IIHF Social Network X after a precise intervention by Travis Sanheim.
Video: Editing from Canada match – Denmark at the World Hockey World Championship 2025
Most of the fans expected the goals bag to break and the outsider of the outsider. However, the exact opposite happened. The Danes in the third part sent up to 22 shots to the goal of Canada. Two of them took over.
At 57:43 Nikolai Ehlers scored and 49 seconds before the end the hockey world was surprised by the striker of České Budějovice Nick Olesen.
The hall in Herning almost fell. More than 10,000 fans forgot about the opening three losses from the beginning of the championship and a geyser of joy spawned.
“Everything is possible,” Gloss Well -known Canadian journalist Pierre Lebrun on Social Network X.
The win also resonated in Stockholm, the main venue of the championship, where the Swedes rejoiced from advancement to the semifinals After winning 5: 2 over the Czech Republic. The result of the home in a room full of journalists was almost no interest, most of them shook their heads over the sensation.
Denmark, which has approximately 6,000 registered players, conquered Canada with a hundred times larger base.
« Remarkable team success, » he wrote about one after midnight of the European Time Web of Canadian TV TSN, which is the only World Hockey World Championship in the country.
There are videos from interviews with sad Canadian hockey players next to the message. Sidney Crosby, the biggest personality of the tournament, stands out most.
« I’m disappointed, » he said. The interview for the IIHF was swept by Danish fans who celebrated historical moments.
Crosby for the first time since 2006 in the Canadian jersey does not celebrate gold. At international level, he has a positive balance with any team, with Denmark 1: 1. After a overwhelming loss he could not find the right words.
« As the tournament continued, we improved. I do not think today’s match was inevitably our best, but we still found a way to secure leadership and … we got the lead and we were in a pretty good position, but the situation changed quickly, » added Captain Canada.
Great victory for Denmark, praised the expert
He does not remember a similar failure. If we also count junior championships, the cradle of hockey is already four tournaments without any medal.
To disappoint hockey players under 20 years in tournaments in 2024 and 2025, the senior team, who last year at the World Championship in the Czech Republic, lost bronze and now dropped out in the quarterfinals.
Despite the fact that Stockholm, and later to Herning, came a team full of experienced players and talented youngsters, the semifinals remained behind the door.
« We were better than we showed. We are very disappointed and it hurts, » said striker Ryan O’Reilly, seven -time World Championship participant and two gold medals from the World Championships.
Denmark conquered the world power only for the second time in history. For the first time three years ago at the Championship in Finland 3: 2.
“Big, really great victory for Denmark,” declared Former hockey player and expert TSN Dave Reid.
Canada and the whole hockey world said goodbye to goalkeeper Marc André-Fleury, who said before the start of the championship that it would be his last career tournament.
After the match, however, the biggest ovation was received by another goalkeeper – Frederic Dichow. The Danish man caught 39 stellar Canadians in the mask and pulled out remarkable interventions several times.
« If you want to succeed against Canada, we have to have exactly such a goalkeeper’s performance. It must be really difficult for Canadians to spend, » said former defender Mark Giordano.
Canada lost the quarterfinals at the World Championship for the first time in 11 years. TV TSN She called this failure in the words « Maple leaves faded ».
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