Tournament co-hosts Sweden and Denmark collide on Sunday for the bronze medal at the IIHF World Championship
Sweden, one of two hosts for the 2025 IIHF World Championship, saw its gold-medal dreams dashed on Saturday and plays for a second straight bronze medal on Sunday at Avicii Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedes take on Denmark, which was blasted in its Saturday semifinal by Switzerland. The stakes are markedly different in this game. Sweden is an 11-time gold medalist at the Worlds while the Danes reached the semifinals for the first time in 58 trips to the tournament and will post its best finish ever at the event regardless of Sunday’s outcome. Denmark’s previous high-water mark had been an eighth-place run in 2010, a mark it matched in 2016.
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Sweden fell behind 4-0 through two periods in a 6-2 loss to the United States in a Saturday semifinal in Stockholm. William Nylander (Toronto Maple Leafs) got the Swedes on the board 6:32 into the third period and Elias Lindholm (Boston Bruins) added a goal just 41 seconds later to close the gap to 4-2, but it got no closer. Lindholm leads the tournament with eight goals and has a team-high 12 points. Jacob Markström (New Jersey Devils) has worked six games in goal with a 2.14 goals-against average and .894 save percentage.
Denmark never threatened in a 7-0 loss to Switzerland on Saturday in Stockholm after its upset of Canada on Thursday in Herning, Denmark. Mikkel Aagaard (MoDo, Sweden) leads the Danes with five goals while Nick Olesen (Motor České Budějovice, Czechia) has four tallies and a team-high 10 points. Frederick Dichow (HV71, Sweden), pulled after allowing five goals on Saturday, has a 2.85 GAA and .905 save percentage in eight games in the tournament.
The Swedes have won their last five meetings with Denmark, most recently a 4-1 victory during the group stage at the 2023 IIHF World Championship in Tampere, Finland. The Danes’ last victory in the series was a 4-3 group-stage win at the 2021 Worlds in Riga, Latvia.
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