{"id":88117,"date":"2026-05-21T06:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/88117\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:27:06","slug":"canada-routs-denmark-to-remain-perfect-at-hockey-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/88117\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada routs Denmark to remain perfect at hockey worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada’s Parker Wotherspoon, centre, celebrates his goal with Canada’s Sidney Crosby, left, and Canada’s John Tavares, right, during the world championship preliminary-round Group B game between Canada and Denmark, in Fribourg, Switzerland, on Monday.Cyril Zingaro\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Porter Martone had a goal and an assist, Sidney Crosby had four assists and Canada defeated Denmark 5-1 for its third straight win at the ice hockey world championship on Monday.<\/p>\n

Gabriel Vilardi, Denton Mateychuk, Ryan O\u2019Reilly and Parker Wotherspoon also scored for Canada, with Macklin Celebrini dishing out two assists. Jet Greaves made 15 saves.<\/p>\n

Nick Olesen had Denmark\u2019s lone goal. Nicolaj Henriksen stopped 33 shots in the loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cDenmark\u2019s goalie made some big saves and we had some looks that we did not convert on, but I thought we controlled the play,\u201d Crosby said. \u201cWe were not discouraged or frustrated with our play because we were playing well, but we wanted to trust our game especially since we had that quarterfinal from (last year\u2019s men\u2019s worlds) fresh in our minds. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a good test for us today, but we showed a lot of poise and patience, and we were able to get a big goal early in the third. That goal from (Martone) opened things up offensively a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The game was scoreless until Martone got things going 28 seconds into the third period. Vilardi and Mateychuk made it a 3-0 game by the 3:33 mark.<\/p>\n

Olesen scored at 10:12 but O\u2019Reilly quickly answered back 1:37 later to restore Canada\u2019s three-goal lead. Wotherspoon sealed the scoring with 29 seconds left.<\/p>\n

\u201cDenmark is a team that protects the interior of the ice well, and they defend well and are fearless shot-blockers,\u201d Canada head coach Misha Donskov said. \u201cThey have great resilience in their game, but our message to our group was to stick with our plan and stay calm, and good things will happen. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt took us a while to find our game, and eventually we did in the third period. Our skill took over and we were getting inside the dots, and we were able to capitalize on our chances.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canada (3-0) leads Group A with nine points, with Denmark (0-3) sits in last. The Canadians will next face Norway on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Canada’s Parker Wotherspoon, centre, celebrates his goal with Canada’s Sidney Crosby, left, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[2592,2582,2593,2574,2572,2594,227,2571,2587,2588,2584,2573,2570,27,26,1414,440,2072,2586,2580,2605,2575,2576,1585,2583,2501,2578,2595,436,2600,2601,2603,2598,2602,2596,2599,2577,2590,2591,1158,2589,2597,2581,239,1413,2585,2579,1161,2604],"class_list":["post-88117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}