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Benjamin Rautiainen scored a power-play goal on a sharp-angle shot with just 37.5 seconds left in overtime.
Published Jan 04, 2025 • 1 minute read
Sweden lost its first game at the world junior hockey championship on Saturday.
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As a result, it was also its last shot at a title.
Benjamin Rautiainen scored a power-play goal on a sharp-angle shot with just 37.5 seconds left in overtime to give Finland a 4-3 victory and a berth in Sunday’s goal-medal game against either the United States or Czechia.
Sweden will play for bronze.
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While Sweden was unbeaten in the preliminary round to finish atop the Group B standings, Finland was second in Group A with a 2-1-1 record.
Canada beat Finland 4-0 in the tournament opener.
“Of course, we’re going to be favourites, but, still, we need to play our best at all times,” Swedish captain Axel Sandin Pellikka, who led the preliminary round in scoring with eight points on four goals and four assists, told reporters before Saturday’s game. “They’re a really good team, so we’d better start preparing as soon as possible.”
The Finns were up 3-2 in the third period when a shot from the blue-line by Sweden’s Wilhelm Hallquisth found its way through a crowd and goalie Petteri Rimpinen with 8:28 remaining to knot the score.
Otto Stenberg, a first-round pick by the National Hockey League’s St. Louis Blues, had two goals for Sweden.
Scoring for Finland were Dallas Stars first-rounder Emil Hemming, who also had an assist for his first two points of the tournament, as well as Nashville Predators prospect Jesse Kiiskinen and undrafted centre Arttu Alasiurua.
Rimpinen faced 46 shots in the Finland goal, while Melker Thelin dealt with 35 shots in the Swedish goal.
Sweden won silver at last year’s tournament in Gothenburg, while Finland finished fourth.
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