With two games played, the top teams are still undefeated in the IIHF men’s Division 1B in Tallinn, Estonia. The hosts, Lithuania, and Korea have six points, but Estonia has the edge thanks to their plus-9 goal difference. Lithuania is plus-6 – the team hasn’t allowed a goal in the tournament yet – and Korea is third with a plus-4 goal difference. 
 
At least one of them won’t have a perfect record after Game Day 3 because Estonia will take on Lithuania in the evening game. Korea will play against Spain, and China against Croatia. 

Lithuania - Spain 5-0 (2-0, 3-0, 0-0)

Lithuania struggled with goal scoring in their opening game in Tallinn. In the second game, the floodgates opened. 
 
Linas Dedinas and Martynas Grinius collected two points each. Latvia’s goaltender Julius Andrekus recorded a 21-save shutout.
 
“We started sluggishly, but picked up pace as the game went on. The players really followed the game plan, and we scored all kinds of goals – through traffic, deflections, good forecheck, and on power play,” said Lithuania’s coach Arunas Aleinikovas.
 
The first period was an even affair for the most part. Then, at 5.31 remaining, Linas Dedinas redirected Martynas Grinius’s slap shot from the point, to give Lithuania the lead Iin the game.  It was the 20-year-old’s first goal in national team.
 
Just 27 seconds later a miscommunication between the Spanish goaltender and defense led to a scoring chance.  Hernandez stopped the puck behind the net and when it slipped towards the Spanish goal, the first one there was Eimantas Noreika who could slam it in to double the Lithuanian lead at 14.56.  
 
In the second period, Spain got into penalty trouble and Lithuania showed no mercy. Nerijus Alisauskas scored the team’s third goal at 2.03, assisted by Ugnius Cizas and Aivaras Bendzius. Emilijus Krakauskas made it 4-0 at 4.55, and that was enough for Spain’s coach who made a goalie change, as he sent in Raul Barbo who played in the team’s first game the day before.  Dedinas picked up an assist, his second point in the game. 
 
Things didn’t get easier for Spain when Juan Munoz received a five-minute major and a game misconduct for an illegal hit to the head. Lithuania sent in waves of attacks and had complete control of the game. 
 
And when another Spanish player was sent to the penalty box, Lithuania scored for the fifth time. Noreika and Ilja Cetvertak set it up and Grinius fired a wrister that beat Barbo on the glove side at 12.46.

The third period was scoreless. 

Estonia - Croatia 6-2 (3-0, 2-2, 1-0)

Host Estonia are here to win, that much is clear after their second game in the tournament. It wasn’t as much that they beat Croatia 6-2, it was the dominating fashion they did it in. 
 
Morten Arantez Jurgens scored twice for Estonia and Robert Arrak had a three-point game. 
 
“It’s always nice to get the first goal, because it gives the team some energy. I’m pleased with both the win and the way we played. We can learn from each game, but I liked the way we came back to the third period,” said Estonia’s coach Petri Skriko.
 
The home team came flying out of the gate, and in the second shift of the game, 18-year-old David Timofejev, who plays in the Finnish U20 league, gave his team the lead with a wraparound that surprised Croatia’s netminder Vilim Rosandic at 1.01.
 
Estonia had 34 shot attempts in the first period, Croatia 6. The relentless pressure yielded results 1t 11.45 when Arrak’s shot from a poor angle slipped in under Rosandic’s arm. It was the third goal of the tournament for the Estonian forward. 
 
Team captain Robert Rooba scored his first of the tournament with a fiery wrist shot from the slot, on power play, assisted by Daniil Kuniltsev and another 18-year-old, Maksim Burkov.
 
Croatia clawed their way back into the game but couldn’t solve Estonian goaltender Koitmaa. And then, with 8.42 remaining, out of nowhere Jurgens got a chance. He fired once from the slot, and when the rebound bounced right back to him, he beat Vito Nikolic – who started the second period – to make it 4-0. 
 
Estonia’s fifth goal came two minutes later after a long cycle in Croatia’s zone. Mark Viitanen climbed the wall and fired a shot from the high slot, and it found its way through traffic, and to the back of the net at 14.00. 
 
Koitmaa’s shutout attempt ended at 15.05 when Croatia was on power play. Koitmaa did make two, three saves before Carlo Marinkovic jammed the puck in from the doorstep to make it 5-1. 
 
Croatia’s power play was lethal tonight. With 2.29 left in the period, Nikolas Malenica used his long reach as he stepped in from behind the net and beat Koitmaa to bring Croatia within three. 
 
“Sometimes the other teams just make a real push when they’re down and you have to give credit to Croatia; they can play hockey, too,” Skriko said.
 
That was as close as they got. With 6.33 remaining in the game, Jurgens sealed the final score with a slapper off a rebound, to pot his second of the night. Viitanen and Arrak picked up assists.

Korea - China 2-1 (0-0, 2-1, 0-0)

The game between Korea and China was a prime example of how even a low scoring hockey game can be a real nailbiter. Even though Korea controlled the game for the most part, the Chinese defense, led by goaltender Shifeng Chen, managed to keep the score close. 
 
Korea’s hero was team captain Sangwook Kim who scored twice and is now tied for first in tournament scoring. Chen made 43 saves for China. 
 
It took China 81 minutes and 50 seconds to score a goal in the tournament but when they did, it couldn’t have come at a better time. 
 
After a broken play in Korea’s zone, Jing Wang fired a shot from a sharp angle and somehow the puck snuck by Jung Ho Ha. 
 
Korea tied the game at 6.48 when, at the end of another long cycle play in China’s zone, team captain Sangwook Kim fired a slap shot that even Chen couldn’t catch.  
 
It was Korea who controlled the game. They outshot China 13-3 in the first period, and pushed the gas pedal all the way down in the second and outshot China 20-6. 
 
It was the 31st Korean shot that gave the team a lead with 1.31 remaining in the period when Sangwook Kim scored his second of the game. The Korean captain was once again at the right spot at the right time, waiting for a rebound. Chen stopped Sanghoon Shin’s initial shot, but the puck landed right in front of Kim who had an easy job to fire it in. 
 
China had three power play opportunities in the third but couldn’t convert. 
 
Coach Pearn pulled Chen with 47 seconds remaining in the game, trying to tie the game with six skaters on the ice, but to no avail. Korea managed to keep China from the dangerous scoring areas and secured the 2-1 win.