With the tournament win Denmark will play at the 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship in Toronto and Montreal.

Overcoming earlier bouts of ill-discipline and lapses of concentration, Denmark deservedly clinched their top of the podium position during the fourth day of the round-robin tournament after Latvia were ousted 4-1. With fourth straight wins, Denmark can now look forward to a place at next year's top division with one round of games still to be played at the ongoing U20 Division I Group A in Sanok.

The four wins were enough because only Latvia and Belarus can match Denmark’s 12 points in the last round tomorrow but Denmark has beaten both in the head-to-head games.

With both Denmark and Latvia undefeated after three rounds, the Danes’ decisive defeat of Latvia can be looked back upon as a triumph when the teachings of head coach Olaf Eller started to fall into place. Perhaps most epitomised by his son, Mads Eller, who is also the younger brother of the Montreal Canadiens’ Lars Eller.

Mads Eller was the tournament's most penaltised player, but in that game he let his undoubted skills out on the ice instead. It was the Edmonton Oil Kings' prospect who set the Danes on course for promotion, breaking the deadlock against Latvia after 12:22 assisted by Oliver Bjorkstrand and Kristoffer Lauridsen in a commanding first period display where the Danes won the shots 14-3.

Continuing to dictate proceedings in the middle frame Denmark doubled the lead when Nikolaj Ehlers hit home the only goal of the period. A sloppy Danish minor penalty caused by too many players on the ice at the start of the third period briefly reignited hopes for a Latvian fightback, as a power play goal from Roberts Lipsbergs halved Denmark's lead at 4:22.