Korea and Estonia remain perfect at the 2026 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I, Group B in Shenzhen. China beat Romania in OT.
 
Korea – Spain, 6–4 (1–1, 4–0, 1–3)
 
Korea got off with a scare after Spain rallied back from 5–1 to 5–4 in the first half of the third period, but they checked off another win in the tournament.
 
Korea outshot Spain 36-10 in the game.
 
Heedoo Nam scored one and added three assists for Korea, Sanghoon Kim scored twice. Gaston Gonzalez scored one and added an assisyt for Spain. 
 
Sihwan Kim gave Korea the start they wanted with a nice redirect that beat Raul Barbo in Spain’s goal at 5:56 of the game. Less than five minutes later, Spain tied the game when Adrian Torralba got on a breakaway and fired the puck past Garam Jang.
 
Korea came into the second period determined to pull away and, thanks to a couple of fortunate bounces, they did just that, scoring twice in the first 87 seconds.
 
Just 35 seconds into the period, Kim Geonwoo was trying to find a teammate at the far post when a Spanish defender, attempting to intercept the pass, instead redirected it into the Spanish net.
 
On the next shift, 52 seconds later, Heedoo Nam fired the puck towards the Spanish net, where it hit a Spanish forward’s skate on the way and caught Barbo by surprise to give Korea a 3–1 lead.
 
Then Spain got into penalty trouble, and Korea extended their lead with two power-play goals.
 
First, Sanghoon Shin ripped a one-timer from the top of the left faceoff circle just five seconds into their two-man advantage to make it 4–1, and then Jin Hui Ahn delivered a carbon copy of the goal to make it 5–1 at 28:00.
 
It was easy to think the game was over, but the Spanish team didn’t agree, as they scored three times in five minutes and 22 seconds to come within one.
 
Joan Cerda neatly tucked in a rebound at 2:01 into the period, Gonzalez scored his third of the tournament off a gorgeous pass by Alejandro Carbonell, before Jaime Capillas made it 5–4 on a breakaway at 7:23.
 
That was as close as Spain came, and with 44 seconds remaining, Shin made it 6–4 into an empty Spanish net.
 
Korea stays perfect in the tournament.
 
Estonia – Netherlands, 5–1 (0–0, 2–1, 3–0)
 
Estonia has a perfect 2–0 record after the first two days of the tournament, having beaten the Netherlands 5–1.
 
While the Dutch stayed level with the Estonians early on, on the ice it was still all Estonia, who outshot the Netherlands 21–4 in the first period.
 
Maksim Burkov broke the tie at 1:21 into the second period, and Rasmus Kiik made it 2–0 just before the halfway point, which was all the Estonians needed to cruise to victory.
 
Bjorn Borgman made it a one-goal game with 1:35 remaining in the second period, but that wasn’t enough.
 
In the third period, David Timofejev scored his fourth goal of the tournament, making it 3–1 for Estonia at 7:26, just as the Dutch had killed another penalty. Timofejev grabbed his own rebound and slammed it in from the doorstep.
 
Kiik sealed the deal with an empty-netter at 18:08.
 
Estonia scored once more 21 seconds later when Marek Potsinok made it 5–1 off a 2-on-1 rush, assisted by his brother Erik and Nikita Puzakov.
 
Estonia will take on Korea—also with a perfect record— on May 2. 
 
Romania – China, 3–4 OT (1–1, 0–1, 2–1, 0–1)
Romania was after another three-pointer, but left the rink disappointed as China grabbed the win thanks to Yuyang Hou’s OT winner on a penalty shot.
 
Romania took the lead in the game on the power play. Yueran Tu made the initial stop on the point shot and even covered the first rebound, but Tamas Reszegh’s second attempt from behind the goal line hit a Chinese defenseman standing in the crease and bounced in for 1–0 at 8:00.
 
With 49 seconds remaining in the first period, Jing Wang sent the home crowd into a frenzy when his wrister from the slot beat Rasmus Rinne to tie the game.
 
China scored the only goal of the second period when Jiaqi Zhang fired a slap shot from the blue line and beat Rinne high to make it 2–1 at 16:46.
 
Romania tied the game in the third period—twice.
 
First, Yevgeni Skachkov made it 2–2 on the power play, but once again China pulled ahead. Zimeng Chen fired a sneaky wrister that went through a Romanian defender’s legs and beat Rinne with 3:04 remaining in the third period.
 
But Romania came back 48 seconds later.
 
Patrik Mre got the puck behind the net, made a quick move to the front, and fired a quick wrist shot that beat Tu high and sent the game into overtime.
 
On the first shift, Hou was brought down as he drove to the net, and he became China’s hero when he scored on the penalty shot.
 
The tournament resumes on May 2 with 

Romania - Spain
Korea - Estonia, and 
Netherlands - China