Denmark women’s ice hockey team wins World Championship match over Japan in shootout, Digi Mart USA News (Herning, Denmark): Denmark’s women’s ice hockey team won a crucial World Championship match against Japan 3-2 on Saturday after a tense shootout.
Danish forward Frederikke Foss scored the decisive penalty on Denmark’s fifth attempt, sending the crowd in the arena in Herning into celebration.
“I was very nervous, because I knew that if I scored, we would win. I believed in it, so there was an opening between the keeper’s legs and I placed it there,” Foss told DR Sporten.
“I hurried over to my teammates, because it was so great. I’m still buzzing,” she added.
Denmark trailed for almost all of regulation time, but three minutes before the end, 17-year-old Teresa Christensen equalized to make it 2-2. When neither team could decide the game in overtime, it went to a shootout.
Before the tournament, the match against Japan had been identified as a game Denmark had to win to avoid finishing last in Group B.
With the win, Denmark now needs a Japanese upset in one of its three remaining group games against Canada, Finland and Sweden to avoid a quarterfinal berth at the home World Championship.
Goalkeeper Emma-Sofie Nordström had a standout game in goal for Denmark.
“I don’t even know how I feel. It’s completely crazy and a historic moment for Danish ice hockey, what we have achieved,” she told DR Sporten.
