With Jesper Jensen out with a concussion and shoulder surgery, and Dahm presumably being rested for more winnable games against Latvia and Kazakhstan, to say it was a rough game for the Danes would be putting it mildly.
Lars Eller's first shift of the game was an excellent one. He bumped Stepan Sannikov off the puck coming toward the Danish net, and took possession of the puck, leading the rush off the ice.
Roman Lyubimov nearly put the puck around Simon Nielsen less than two minutes in, but fortunately Nielsen covered it up.
Alexei Marchenko scored about a minute later on a beautiful feed from Yevgeni Dadonov, past an unsuspecting Nielsen.