Game Report 933

World Junior A Challenge

PLAYED AT: West Central Events Centre
Date: Dec 18, 2014
GAME NOTES: 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.

Visiting Team: Russia

Home Team: Denmark

RUSSIA LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	1	Krasotkin, Anton
	2	Kudako, Vadim
	3	Sidorov, Mikhail
	4	Kozyrev, Alexander
	7	Rykov, Yegor
	8	Chebykin, Nikolai
	9	Shemerov, Alexander
	10	Vorobyov, Mikhail
	11	Volkov, Artyom
	12	Ivanyuzhenkov, Artyom
	13	Mityakin, Yevgeni
	17	Kvartalnov, Danila
	18	Obidin, Andrei
	21	Kaprizov, Kirill
	22	Bannikov, Andrei
	23	Ivashov, Roman
	24	Yemets, Ivan
	25	Guryanov, Denis
	26	Barabanov, Vladimir
	27	Zhukenov, Dmitri

RUSSIA PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st	12	2:00	(auto) Goaltender Interference minor	12:27	1		12:27	9:33
2nd	8	2:00	Slashing minor	5:46	1		5:46	16:14
3rd	8	2:00	(auto) High-Sticking minor	3:20			3:20	18:40
3rd	25	2:00	Slashing minor	6:11			6:11	15:49
3rd	22	2:00	(auto) High-Sticking minor	18:38	1		18:38	3:22

DENMARK LINEUP
Pos	No.	Name
G	30	Sorensen, George
	2	Krogsgaard, Anders
	3	Hansen, Daniel
	5	Lassen, Matias
	6	Nielsen, Daniel
	7	Aagaard, Mikkel
	9	Olesen, Nick
	10	Jensen, Kristian
	11	Larsen, Mads
	12	Mieritz, Christian
	14	Eskerod, Victor
	15	Staeremose Pison, Andre
	16	TRUE, Alexander
	17	Nielsen, Marcus
	18	Hertzberg, Sonny
	20	Eller, Mads
	21	Asperup, Matthias
	24	Ehlers, Nikolaj
	25	Dau Mortensen, Søren
	27	Bjorkstrand, Oliver
	29	Rasmussen, Emil
	33	Holmberg, Jeppe

DENMARK PENALTIES
Per.	No.	Min	Offence	Off	PP	PS	Start	On
1st		2:00	Too Many Men on the Ice minor	19:46	1		19:46	2:14
2nd	6	2:00	(auto) High-Sticking minor	8:29	1		8:29	13:31
2nd	15	2:00	Tripping minor	16:46	1		16:46	5:14
3rd	10	2:00	(auto) Checking from Behind minor	2:57	1		2:57	19:03
3rd	10	10:00	(auto) Checking from Behind misconduct	2:57			2:57	7:03
3rd	20	2:00	Slashing minor	6:11			6:11	15:49

RUSSIA Goals

RUSSIA PLAYERS (plus)

DENMARK PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

2nd

10:42

7-11

DENMARK Goals

DENMARK PLAYERS (plus)

RUSSIA PLAYERS (minus)

Per.

Time

G-As1-As2

1st