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Finland Advances To WJC Gold Medal Game

01/04/2016 at 11:51am EST

from Risto Pakarinen at the IIHF website,

It was Finnish young guns versus Sweden’s solid defence, and it didn’t turned out to be similar fireworks of scoring as Finland’s game against Canada. But it was a thriller all the same, and in the end, Finns came out on top thanks to two second-period goal, 2-1.

Kasperi Kapanen and team captain Mikko Rantanen collected two assists each for Finland. Antti Kalapudas scored the game-winner. Kaapo Kahkonen made 21 saves for Finland.

Rasmus Asplund scored Sweden’s lone goal, Linus Soderstrom made 26 saves.

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