Today's game between Baltic rivals Lithuania and Estonia saw bonus points being at stake. For Lithuania a victory would mean they would have definitely avoided relegation and would remain in the medal race.

For still pointless Estonia, any points gained from this game would bring them a step closer from avoiding relegation and above the other remaining pointless team; the Netherlands, which plays against Croatia later today.

"We came into this tournament for a medal and we can still achieve that," Lithuania forward Darius Pliskauskas said. "We still play Korea and Great Britain so we are up for some good games."

The Lithuanians started brightest and took the lead of the first chance of the game. Aivaras Bendzius picked up a lose puck in the Estonian zone and wristed it over Roman Shumukhin's stick hand to score his first of the game.

Unlike their previous two games, Estonia this time had trouble finding their game as Lithuania was allover the blue-and-white Estonians. Goaltender Roman Shumikhin made some flying saves denying Daniel Bogdziul and Dovydas Kulevicius but eventually he had to surrender. With Ilja Urushev in the penalty box for kneeing, Nerijus Alisauskas found a wide open Darius Pliskauskas at the far post to double Lithuania's lead.

Aleksei Sibirtsev tallied for Estonia in the second period when he found space between the legs of Mantas Armalis after a great feed of Roman Andrejev but it was as close as Estonia would get.