Czechia is through to the quarterfinal against Canada, after their 3-2 win over Denmark. 
 
Roman Cervenka scored the game-winner in the second period and Martin Necas picked up two points. Olesen scored again for Denmark, his fourth goal in four Olympic games is tied for tournament lead. Frederik Andersen made 29 saves for Denmark. 
 
"I'm happy we made it to the next round, but on the other hand, I think we should've controlled the game when we had a 3-1 lead. We gave Denmark too much powerplay and that gave them the chances," Cervenka said. 
 
"They were better than us. We were under pressure for periods at a time but at the same time, we managed to keep them on the outside and I think Freddie was great in goal. We were trailing by only one entering the third, and we did have chances to ties at the end," said Olesen. 
 
The fact that the stakes were suddenly a lot higher was obvious in the first period, in which both teams avoided taking any risks and always erred on the side of caution, ready to gum up the neutral zone.
 
Czechia had a slight edge in the first period, but Andersen had no trouble turning away the few chances the Czechs created. Also, almost half of the Czechs’ shots missed the net. Denmark had their moments on the power play early in the period but couldn’t convert on them.
 
Czechia started the second period with renewed energy, and when Lars Eller received a high-sticking minor five minutes into the period, they saw their window of opportunity. The first power-play unit cycled the puck around the Danish zone and in a few seconds, it went from Roman Cervenka to Filip Hronek to Martin Necas, who fired a cannon of a shot from the top of the circle, and Andersen was beaten. Czechia took a 1-0 lead at 5:39 into the second period.
 
"He found that space, it was a heckuva shot," Andersen said. 
 
The Danes tied the game with style just three and a half minutes later when a broken play on the Danish blueline sent Alexander True and Joackim Blichfeld on a partial two-on-one, and they finished a nice tic-tac-toe play. True passed to Blichfeld on the goal line, who sent the puck right back to the front of the net, and True tapped it in for 1-1 at 9:02.
 
The Czechs’ 2-1 goal came just 73 seconds after the Danes had tied the game, and it was just as nice a play when Jan Rutta found David Kampf at the back door and sent a hard pass so that all Kampf had to do was keep his stick on the ice. Necas also picked up an assist.
 
Then it was time for a Cervenka show. The 40-year-old forward received a pass from David Pastrnak on the red line, turned on the jets, accelerated around the Danish defense, and fired a wrister right off his stride, hitting top shelf on Andersen’s glove side in the exact same spot where Necas’s goal landed.
 
"I don't know if their defenseman made a bad turn or something. but I was fresh, so I tried to put it behind him and hit the far corner and was happy to get it,” said. Cervenka who became the second male player to score two Olympic goals as a 40-year-old, after another Czech legend, Jaromir Jagr.  
 
But only a fool would think Denmark had given up. Nick Olesen scored on the power play on a nifty move from the goal line, backing up to the front of the net and beating Dostal with a wrister top shelf, assisted by Oskar Moelgaard and Blichfeld. 
 
Czechia outshot Denmark 26-14 through two periods.
 
The third period was scoreless and even though Denmark chased their third goal all the way to the end, the Czechs managed to lock it down.
 
"We lost, so it's tough right now. It felt like we had a chance and now we're out. They have a fast team, a skilled team, but most of the time we did a pretty good job of keeping them on the outside, but we couldn't find a way to get the third goal," Denmark's Nicklas Jensen said. 
 
Czechia will face Canada in the quarterfinal tomorrow.
 
"They have the best player on the planet on their team, and they can destroy you, so we have to just play with confidence," Czechia’s Tomas Hertl said. "We can't think about who is on the ice, Besides, they have four good lines. But it’s one game, you know?"
 
"How big a challenge is Canada? The biggest," Cervenka added.