World News Roundup USA – WJC: USA defeat Finland and advance to championship game

Monday was the 11th. Day of the IIHF World Junior Championship 2021, which will be held at Rogers Place in Edmonton.

USA 4, Finland 3: Arthur Kaliyev (Los Angeles Kings) scored the decisive goal 1:16 in the third half, and the USA advanced to the championship game.

The United States will play Canada on Tuesday (9:30 p.m.). m. ET; NHL, TSN) in his seventh championship game since adopting the current tournament format in 1996. During this time it has won the title four times. Finland plays on Tuesday (17. 30 o’clock) in the game for third place against Russia. m. ET; NHLN, TSN).

Alex Turcotte (Kings) had one goal and assist, John Farinacci (Arizona Coyotes) and Matthew Boldy (Minnesota Wild) scored and Spencer Knight (Florida Panthers) scored 33 saves for the United States.

Kasper Simontaival (Kings) scored two goals, Roni Hirvonen (Toronto Maple Leafs) and Kasper Puutio (Panthers) and Ville Heinola (Winnipeg Jets) each had two assists for Finland. Kari Piiroinen (2021 NHL Draft Qualified) made 22 saves.

Kaliyev took a pass from Turcotte between the two face-off circles and snapped a snapshot that knocked Piiroinen over the glove and just under the bar to give the USA a 4-3 advantage.

Simontaival scored his fourth goal of the tournament with a shot from the slot to pull Finland within 3-2 at 11:38. Hirvonen scored a power play goal to make it 3: 3 at 16:17.

Turcotte put USA 1-0 ahead when he controlled a pass from Kaliyev on his skates in the slot and hit the left post at 12:39 in the first half.

Simontaival connected it 1: 1 with a power play goal on a one-timer from the slot at 2:06 p.m. of the first.

Farinacci scored a breakaway after receiving a stretch pass from defenseman Jackson LaCombe (Anaheim Ducks) to give the US a 2-1 lead at 3:53 pm of the second half. Farinacci has scored five goals in the tournament, three in their last two games.

Boldy made it 3-1 when he scored on power play at 5:00 p.m.. Trevor Zegras (Ducks) joined Jeremy Roenick (1989) with second place in the U. . S.. . Listed for the most points (16) in a single tournament and most career points (25, 10 games) in the WJC with a support for goal.

It was the fifth win in a row for the USA after a 5-3 loss to Russia in their first game of the preliminary round in December. 25th. The United States are 6-2-0-3 against Finland in their last 11 games. Finland had won the last two (1-0 in the 2020 quarter-finals; 3-2 in the 2019 championship game). .

Canada 5, Russia 0: Devon Levi (Panthers) scored 28 saves for his third shutout and Canada advanced to the championship game with victory.

Canada is in its 18th. Playing championship game since the current tournament format was adopted in 1996. It has won the title 10 times in that time.

Dylan Cozens (Buffalo Sabers) scored one goal and had two assists, and Alex Newhook (Colorado Avalanche), Connor McMichael (Washington Capitals), Cole Perfetti (Jets) and Braden Schneider (New York Rangers) scored one goal for Canada.

Russia’s goalkeeper Iaroslav Askarov (Nashville Predators) made 30 saves. Russia will play for third place in the game that will also be played on Tuesday (Jan.. 30 p.m.) is planned. m. ET; NHLN, TSN).

Levi, who started every game in his first World Juniors tournament, has 57 saves from 57 shots in two games of the playoff round (also 3-0 win against the Czech Republic in January). 2). He is linked to Justin Pogge for most of the failures for Canada at the WJC (Pogge went 6-0-0 for champions Canada in 2006).

« I’m not playing for a shutout record, » Levi said. « I’m playing for a gold medal so it doesn’t really bother me. I’m looking for tomorrow. Maybe taking care of the tournament is something, but the job isn’t done yet. « 

Newhook, who missed the quarter-final win against the Czech Republic due to an upper body injury, brought Canada 1-0 up on the right post, who beat Askarov on the short side and 59 seconds over his blocker in the first period.

McMichael made it 2-0 after receiving a pass from Jakob Pelletier (Calgary Flames) and shooting a shot from the slot at 10:33. Perfetti scored a power play goal in a shot from the right circle 3-0 at 3:05 pm.

Schneider scored the 4-0 with a shot from the top of the left circle at 4:09 in the second half. The game began when striker Dawson Mercer (New Jersey Devils) stole Shakir Makhamadullin’s (Devils) defender in Canada’s Zone.

Mikhail Abramov (Maple Leafs) scored in the power play for Russia at 17:37, but the goal was challenged and knocked over by Canada because Russia was offside 40 seconds before entering the zone.

« That goal could have made a huge difference in the game, » said Russia coach Igor Larionov. « We’re losing the game 4-0 and we’re trying to find a way to score some goals. The power play was going in our direction. We fired a few shots, scored a few rebounds and scoring the goal was a relief. « . But after checking, there is nothing you can do. Those are the rules and I have to respect the rules. « 

« Really, all we’ve worked for is to get this (championship game), » Newhook said. « This day has been noted on all of our calendars since we arrived. To finally be here and see that the work we have done has paid off up to this point. We look forward to taking this mindset into the future and playing our game the best we can and getting gold. « 

Canada, who won 4: 3 against Russia in the championship game of the WJC 2020, has an advantage of 14: 1: 3: 9 in 29 games with a draw in the all-time series against Russia.

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