🇷🇺 Russia 5-1 Czechia 🇨🇿
World Junior Championship Semifinal
Hartwall Areena, Helsinki 🇫🇮
Thursday, 01 January 1998

BOXSCORE
1st Period
06:37 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Piroš
08:15 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Posmyk
11:50 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Shikhanov

2nd Period
23:34 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kvasha
28:20 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Markov
30:58 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Pokrovski
31:11 – 🇨🇿 PP GOAL – Posmyk (Mudroch, Bacho)
31:38 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Markov
33:02 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Kvasha (Antipov)
36:35 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Hejda
37:17 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Shikhanov (Kruchinin, Markov)

3rd Period
46:31 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Posmyk
55:45 – 🇷🇺 GOAL – Balmochnykh (Shikhanov)
56:06 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Sýkora
56:30 – 🇨🇿 PEN – Skrbek
58:11 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Krovopuskov (Markov, Balmochnykh)

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇷🇺 Khlopotnov (21-22)
L: 🇨🇿 Svoboda (23-28)

SHOTS ON GOAL
🇷🇺 9+9+10 = 28
🇨🇿 7+6+9 = 22

ROSTERS
🇷🇺 Goaltenders: Denis Khlopotnov, Dmitri Mylnikov. Defence: Mikhail Chernov, Mikhail Donika, Andrei Kruchinin, Andrei Markov, Valeri Pokrovski, Alexei Tezikov, Vitali Vishnevski. Forwards: Maxim Afinogenov, Vladimir Antipov, Denis Arkhipov, Maxim Balmochnykh, Artyom Chubarov, Alexei Krovopuskov, Oleg Kvasha, Roman Lyashenko, Yegor Mikhailov, Sergei Shikhanov, Denis Shvidki, Andrei Sidyakin, Dmitri Vlasenkov.
🇨🇿 Goaltenders: Vlastimil Lakosil, Adam Svoboda. Defence: Lukáš Galvas, Jan Hejda, Tomáš Kaberle, Petr Mudroch, Marek Posmyk, Karel Rachůnek, Robert Schnabel, Pavel Skrbek. Forwards: Pavel Bacho, Radek Duda, Pavel Kábrt, Aleš Kotalík, Ivo Novotny, Kamil Piroš, Radek Procházka, Pavel Selingr, Josef Straka, Petr Sýkora, Patrik Štefan, Martin Tomášek.

🇷🇺 RUSSIA (C)	vs.	CZECHIA 🇨🇿
current champion (since 31 Dec 1997)	Last Title	31 Dec 1997
83	All-Time Wins	15
18 wins	Head-To-Head (+ 2 ties)	3 wins
First IHLC Meeting (RUS vs. CZE) 🇷🇺 URS 7-5 TCH 🇨🇿 – 29 Dec 1973 – WJT – Leningrad 🇷🇺
Previous IHLC Meeting (RUS vs. CZE)  RUS 5-1 CZE  – 26 Dec 1993 – WJC – Ostrava
Last IHLC Game RUS 2-1 CAN  (OT) – 31 Dec 1997 – WJC – Hämeenlinna
Next IHLC Game FIN 2-1 RUS (OT) – 03 Jan 1998 – WJC – Helsinki