How to Watch Denmark vs. United States: Stream 2025 IIHF World Championship Live, TV Channel

Denmark hosts the United States on Friday to kick-off the preliminary round of the 2025 IIHF World Championship.

As one of the two host countries for the 2025 IIHF World Championship, Denmark will be tested by one of the best teams in the field. Denmark hosts Group B featuring Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Norway, Switzerland and its opponent on Friday, the United States. This is the best opportunity for Denmark to earn the country’s first medal in this event. As a host it will have the crowd and momentum on its side from the first puck drop of the tournament. For the United States, it has 20 total medals, including two Gold Medals in 1933 and 1960. Both teams didn’t make it past the quarterfinals last year, with the United States losing to the eventual champions, Czechia, in that round.

How to Watch Denmark vs. United States Today:

Game Date: Friday, May 9, 2025

Game Time: 2:00 p.m. ET

TV: NHL Network

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Denmark has not made the top four with the opportunity for a medal ever in this tournament. In 2018, when Denmark hosted this tournament for the first time, it finished with three wins and three losses, finishing 10th overall and eliminated in the Group Stage.

While the United States was eliminated in the quarterfinals last year, the team was a semifinalist or better in each of three previous seasons. They finished in fourth place in both 2023 and 2022, while earning a Bronze Medal for the ninth time in 2021.

This is the first match of the tournament for both teams. After this the United States takes on Hungary in its second game, while Denmark squares off with Switzerland in its second game of the tournament from Herning, Denmark.

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