Eight Seattle Kraken players and one prospect are participating in the IIHF 2025 Men’s World Championship, May 9 to May 25, with games to be played in Sweden and Denmark.
Below the photos, results of each day’s games involving teams for which Kraken players are involved. Plus, details on individual performances of those Kraken players. So refresh this page during the tournament for the latest information.
Teams receive 3 points for a regulation win, 2 points for an OT win, and 1 point for an OT loss.
May 12 Games Involving Kraken Players
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USA 0 (2-1-0, 6 points)
Switzerland 3 (2-0-1, 7 points)
Now Team USA knows how it feels.
After shutting out its first two opponents, USA was the team putting up a goose egg in their loss to Switzerland. Joey Daccord surrendered two 1st period goals and one more in the 3rd. Not making excuses for the Kraken netminder, but all three goals against were either complete screens or fluky bounces. He made 24 saves. Matty Beniers went without a shot on goal in 17:45 TOI. Mikey Eyssimont got off one SOG in 8:17.
“We just didn’t get to our game,” Beniers said to IIHF.com. “I think that one of our strengths is trying to dictate the game and trying to play fast. And I thought they controlled it better and played the game they wanted to play. They got it behind our D more than we did and made us play defense.”
Finland (2-0-0, 5 points)
Sweden (2-0-0, 6 points)
11:20 am Seattle time; TV: NHL Network
Czechia (2-0-0, 5 points)
Denmark (0-2-0, 0 points)
11:20 am Seattle time
May 11 Games Involving Kraken Players
In OT: Finland 4 (2-0-0, 5 points)
France 3 (0-1-1, 1 point)
Eeli Tolvanen will probably never have to buy his own Karelian Hot Pot in Finland again.
Team Finland was two minutes from an embarrassing upset loss to France (no offense, ex-Kraken Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, who chipped in two assists). Then, Kraken forward Tolvanen skated to the rescue.
A Team France empty-net goal put Finland in a 3-1 hole; then the Finns pulled their goalie again. Tolvanen got Finland within one at 18:27, slamming in a rebound from the doorstep. The Finns pulled their goalie for a third time, and Tolvanen scored again. His equalizer – on a wrister from the inside edge of the right circle that knuckled in off Bellemare’s attempted block – came with 28 seconds left.
Just 1:24 into the extra session, Juuso Parssinen scored the game-winner – with an assist from Tolvanen, of course.
USA 6 (2-0-0, 6 points)
Hungary 0 (0-2-0, 0 points)
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Kraken goalie Joey Daccord got the night off. Jeremy Swayman of the Bruins more or less did too, needing to make just 13 saves as Team USA hasn’t been scored upon through two games.
Matty Beniers took three of USA’s 39 shots in 18:04 of ice time, set up Cutter Gauthier in the 2nd period for the first of his two goals, and took a hooking penalty. Mikey Eyssimont skated just over 10 minutes.
Canada 7 (2-0-0, 6 points)
Latvia 1 (1-1-0, 3 points)
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Add this to Brandon Montour’s bragging montage: he and Sidney Crosby assisted on the same goal. The Kraken defenseman’s slick slap-pass set up the first of two Kent Johnson scores in Canada’s wipeout of Latvia. Montour also took one shot of his own in 18:58 TOI. Ryker Evans played 8:44.
Germany 4 (2-0-0, 6 points)
Kazakhstan 1 (1-0-0, 3 points)
Philipp Grubauer got to enjoy Germany’s second victory from the bench as the backup netminder.
May 10 Games Involving Kraken Players
Canada 4 (1-0-0, 3 points)
Slovenia 0 (0-1-0, 0 points)
The distance between the top and bottom teams in this tournament is about equal to the distance between Seattle and Stockholm. The latter city is where Kraken defensemen Brandon Montour, Ryker Evans, and their Team Canada teammates had an easy time, outshooting Slovenia 44-11. Montour took two of those shots in 20:40 TOI, and contributed one assist. Evans played 8:53 with one SOG.
Sweden 4 (2-0-0, 6 points)
Austria 2 (0-2-0, 0 points)
Austria carried a 2-1 lead into the final three minutes, angling for one of those David vs. Goliath upsets that occasionally stun these competitions. Jonas Brodin at 17:41, Mika Zibanejad 12 seconds later, and former Kraken Alex Wennberg into an empty net prevented Team Sweden embarrassment in front of their home fans. Adam Larsson skated 19:45 on defense with one SOG.
Germany 6 (1-0-0, 3 points)
Hungary 1 (0-1-0, 0 points)
One day after Joey Daccord backstopped a shutout for Team USA, Kraken goaltending partner Philipp Grubauer almost did the same for Team Germany. Hungary’s Gergo Ambrus put the only puck past Grubauer with 11:31 to play. Playing in his 6th World Championship, “Grubi” made 18 saves.
Grubauer told IIHF.com an improving German team has an eye on the 2026 Winter Games. “You want to play at the Olympics, and you have another shot at playing at the Olympics. It’s going to be the first time for me and a couple guys. This group has been successful a couple of years ago. So it’s important to have a good tournament here, because I think most guys who made the team here are going to go to the Olympics, and then we move on from there.”
Switzerland 5 (1-0-1, 4 points)
Denmark 2 (0-2-0, 0 points)
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Kraken prospect Oscar Molgaard scored one of Denmark’s two 2nd period goals, but his team remained winless in front of home fans at at the Jyske Bank Boxen in Herning.
Seattle’s 2nd round choice in 2023 had a beauty of an individual effort to convert a shorthanded breakaway. Skating in alone from the red line, Molgaard slid across the crease before parking a backhand along the ice. Molgaard, who played 15:56, also had Team Denmark’s first shot on goal, which unfortunately didn’t come until 19 minutes had elapsed.
Molgaard also impressed with a late-season apprenticeship in Coachella Valley. Appearing in seven regular season games for the Firebirds, the 20-year-old forward scored two goals and one assist.
May 9 Games Involving Kraken Players
USA 5 (1-0)
Denmark 0 (0-1)
The Kraken continent, as the kids like to say, showed out. Matty Beniers scored twice, Mikey Eyssimont flew up and down the ice and took the body, and Joey Daccord pitched a 26-save shutout. Although the Danes were badly outmatched – outshot 48-26 – Daccord was tested on several occasions.
Beniers, voted by his teammates as player of the game, worked hard for his first score. He won a faceoff, fought through traffic on his way to the net, and while battling with onetime Kraken Alexander True, tipped home Team USA’s third goal. Matty then finished the scoring with a 3rd period laser.
Three of Daccord’s saves came off the stick of Denmark’s Oscar Fisker Mølgaard, Seattle’s 2nd round draft pick in 2023. Danish goalie Frederik Dichow was outstanding in defeat, making 43 saves, many spectacular, some at point-blank range without his goal stick. The game was played in Herning, Denmark.
Sweden 5 (1-0)
Slovakia 0 (0-1)
Defenseman Adam Larsson collected one assist, took on SOG, and obviously wasn’t on for any goals against in 22:02 of ice time. Playing in front of home fans in Stockholm, Team Sweden scored twice in the final 70 seconds of the 1st period and coasted from there.
Finland 2 (1-0)
Austria 1 (0-1)
All the goals were scored in the first 14 minutes. Eeli Tolvanen took three of Finland’s 28 shots in 19:39 TOI. (The real story was who he was shooting against.) “We had a pretty good start, and a good power play in the first period. They skated well and managed to take time and space away from us,” Eeli said in the IIHF game story.
Each side had a Tolvanen sibling in this game. Eeli’s brother, Atte, a naturalized Austrian, played well with 26 saves against the more powerful Finns – including those three against his brother. One was a Tolvanen-on-Tolvanen breakaway, which the goaltending brother won.
“Hopefully, there’s a photo of that somewhere,” Atte said. “I may have had some idea of what he would do, but he’s got so many moves that he can change it up anytime.”