2014 World Junior A Challenge

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2014 World Junior A Challenge
Game #9
Final
December 18, 2014 4:30 pm CST
West Central Events Centre
Kindersley, Sask.

Scoring

Teams
1st
2nd
3rd
Final
Teams
1
2
3
F
0
1
0
1
1
3
1
5

Shots on Goal

1st
2nd
3rd
Final
1
2
3
F
6
14
6
26
13
13
12
38

Statistics

PP
PIM
0 / 4
10
1 / 3
20

Game Story

BJORKSTRAND’S TWO GOALS LEAD DENMARK INTO WJAC FINAL

JASON LA ROSE

KINDERSLEY, Sask. – Oliver Bjorkstrand’s two goals led the offence as Denmark moved into the gold medal game at the 2014 World Junior A Challenge with a 5-1 semifinal win over Russia on Thursday afternoon.

The Danes, who are making their debut at the tournament this year, will face either Canada East or the United States in Saturday afternoon’s final (2:30 p.m. CT).

Matthias Asperup, Nick Olesen and Jeppe Holmberg had the other goals for Denmark, who beat the Russians for the second time in four days, having earned a 4-2 preliminary round victory on Monday.

Yegor Rykov answered with the lone Russian goal.

The Danes came out like they were shot out of a cannon, racking up six shots in the first three minutes and taking an early 1-0 lead when Asperup knocked in his own rebound after rifling a wrist shot off the crossbar.

The lead remained one until the early minutes of the second period, when Denmark struck twice to give itself a little bit of breathing room.

First it was Bjorkstrand at 3:07, converting a rebound off a Nikolaj Ehlers chance, followed 1:42 later by Olesen, who finished a pretty passing play with the 3-0 goal, giving the Danes all the offence they would need.

Russia got one back midway through the middle frame on a delayed penalty; Rykov pinched in from the point and one-timed a pass from Artyom Volkov, getting his shot up and over a sprawling George Sorensen.

The Russians looked primed to cut the lead to one on a late period power play, but Holmberg blocked a shot at his own blue-line and raced away on a two-on-one with Marcus Nielsen, wiring a wrist shot just under the crossbar over the short-side shoulder of Anton Krasotkin to restore the three-goal lead.

Denmark never allowed Russia to seriously threaten its lead in the third period, and Bjorkstrand capped the scoring on a feed from Ehlers in the final minute.

The loss means the Russians will play in Friday night’s bronze medal game (7:30 p.m. CT), against the loser of the Canada East-United States semifinal.

Play-by-Play

Team
Description
Time
1st Period
GOAL
Goal: Matthias Asperup

Assists: Emil Rasmussen, Mikkel Aagaard
02:58
PENALTY
Penalty: Artyom Ivanyuzhenkov
(auto) Goaltender Interference minor (2:00)
12:27
PENALTY
Penalty: (Served by Nick Olesen)
Too Many Men on the Ice minor (2:00)
19:46
2nd Period
GOAL
Goal: Oliver Bjorkstrand

Assists: Nikolaj Ehlers
03:07
GOAL
Goal: Nick Olesen

Assists: Mikkel Aagaard, Matthias Asperup
04:49
PENALTY
Penalty: Nikolai Chebykin
Slashing minor (2:00)
05:46
PENALTY
Penalty: Daniel Nielsen
(auto) High-Sticking minor (2:00)
08:29
GOAL
Goal: Yegor Rykov

Assists: Artyom Volkov
10:42
PENALTY
Penalty: Andre Staeremose Pison
Tripping minor (2:00)
16:46
GOAL (SHORT HANDED)
Goal: Jeppe Holmberg

17:21
3rd Period
PENALTY
Penalty: Kristian Jensen (Served by Emil Rasmussen)
(auto) Checking from Behind minor (2:00)
02:57
PENALTY
Penalty: Kristian Jensen
(auto) Checking from Behind misconduct (10:00)
02:57
PENALTY
Penalty: Nikolai Chebykin
(auto) High-Sticking minor (2:00)
03:20
PENALTY
Penalty: Denis Guryanov
Slashing minor (2:00)
06:11
PENALTY
Penalty: Mads Eller
Slashing minor (2:00)
06:11
PENALTY
Penalty: Andrei Bannikov
(auto) High-Sticking minor (2:00)
18:38
GOAL (POWER PLAY)
Goal: Oliver Bjorkstrand

Assists: Nikolaj Ehlers, Matias Lassen
19:40

Goaltenders

Name Team Mins SA SVS GA SV%
Anton Krasotkin RUS 60 38 33 5 0.868
George Sorensen DEN 60 26 25 1 0.962

Game Leaders

Goals 1 - Assists 0 - Points 1
G 1 - A 0 - P 1
Goals 2 - Assists 0 - Points 2
G 2 - A 0 - P 2
Goals 0 - Assists 1 - Points 1
G 0 - A 1 - P 1
Goals 1 - Assists 1 - Points 2
G 1 - A 1 - P 2
Goals 0 - Assists 2 - Points 2
G 0 - A 2 - P 2

Previous Games

2 - 0 W @ Canada EastCAN-E
Dec 19, 2014
2 - 3 L vs. United StatesUSA
Dec 20, 2014
1 - 5 L @ DenmarkDEN
Dec 18, 2014
5 - 1 W vs. RussiaRUS
Dec 18, 2014
3 - 2 W @ SwitzerlandSUI
Dec 17, 2014
4 - 2 W vs. RussiaRUS
Dec 15, 2014
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