IIHF - Steen Strike Saves Norway From Relegation

Norway's ice hockey masters escaped with the scare – avoided World Cup fiasco with a narrow victory in the fateful match Only victory was good enough for national team manager Tobias Johansson's team in the last World Cup match in Herning, Denmark. The Norwegian ice warriors solved that task, but along the way there were tendencies for both panic and huge trouble against a Hungarian team that the experts were clear in advance that they would be…

Herning (Denmark) - Norway's hockey team earned their first win in their last seven appearances at this year's World Championship, keeping them among the elite. They defeated Hungary 1-0 in a Group B match in Herning. A surprising point they earned against the Americans helped them survive.

IIHF - Steen strike saves Norway from relegation

Norway clinched its place at next year’s IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship – but it was a tense battle to edge past Hungary and secure survival. Monday night’s 1-0 victory in Herning moves the Norwegians off the foot of Group B in its seventh and final game. With four points, Tobias Johansson’s team is up to sixth in the standings with four points. As things stand, Hungary is also safe in seventh, but that could all change if Kazakhstan can ta…

Although the Hungarian men's ice hockey team fought hard and was several times millimeters away from scoring a second world championship point in Herning, in the end we could not score a goal, only hit the goal posts of the Scandinavians.

Norway defeated Hungary, but the question of whether they would remain in the Ice Hockey World Championship was not decided. Everything depends on the Kazakhstan-Switzerland match.

He wasn't really supposed to be in the World Cup. Now Tobias Normann is being highlighted as the decisive factor in Norway remaining an A-nation in the future.