🇫🇮 Finland 3-1 Russia
World Junior Championship Preliminary Round
Luzhniki Small Sports Arena, Moscow
Sunday, 31 December 2000

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:39 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Volchenkov
06:29 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kovalchuk
12:45 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Niskala
14:14 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Rita
16:58 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Pihlman

2nd Period
20:36 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Duma
24:08 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Barkunov
24:44 – 🇫🇮 PP GOAL – Ruutu (Rita)
25:23 – 🇫🇮 GOAL – Salmelainen (Hämäläinen)
28:29 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Svitov
33:03 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Paukkunen
38:18 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Koivu
38:18 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Kovalchuk

3rd Period
42:17 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Malmivaara
45:07 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Barkunov
53:34 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Salmelainen
54:53 – 🇷🇺 PP GOAL – Denisov (Kovalchuk, Svitov)
58:48 – 🇫🇮 PEN – Paukkunen
59:44 – 🇷🇺 PEN – Seluyanov

GOALTENDERS
W: 🇫🇮 Ahonen (11-12)
L: 🇷🇺 Medvedev (28-31)

SHOTS ON GOAL
🇫🇮 10+15+6 = 31
🇷🇺 5+2+5 = 12

ROSTERS
🇫🇮 Goaltenders: Ari Ahonen, Kari Lehtonen. Defence: Lasse Kukkonen, Olli Malmivaara, Tuukka Mäntylä, Tero Määttä, Janne Niskala, Markku Paukkunen, Harri Tikkanen. Forwards: Juha-Pekka Hytönen, Ville Hämäläinen, Toni Koivisto, Mikko Koivu, Jouni Kulonen, Miro Laitinen, Toni Mustonen, Tuomas Pihlman, Jani Rita, Tuomo Ruutu, Teemu Sainomaa, Tony Salmelainen, Sami Venäläinen.
🇷🇺 Goaltenders: Andrei Medvedev, Alexei Petrov. Defence: Alexander Barkunov, Denis Denisov, Denis Grebeshkov, Vladislav Korneyev, Rail Rozakov, Alexander Seluyanov, Anton Volchenkov. Forwards: Alexander Buturlin, Alexander Chagodayev, Artyom Chernov, Stanislav Chistov, Pavel Duma, Ilya Kovalchuk, Yevgeni Muratov, Ivan Nepryayev, Yegor Shastin, Andrei Shefer, Alexander Svitov, Pavel Vorobyev, Mikhail Yakubov.

🇫🇮 FINLAND	vs.	RUSSIA (C) 🇷🇺
new champion (previous 10 Nov 2000)	Last Title	reign ends (since 29 Dec 2000)
40	All-Time Wins	85
5 wins	Head-To-Head (+ 5 ties)	24 wins
First IHLC Meeting (FIN vs. RUS) 🇫🇮 FIN 7-7 URS 🇷🇺 – 14 Sep 1973 – EX – Lappeenranta 🇫🇮
Previous IHLC Meeting (FIN vs. RUS)  RUS 3-1 FIN  – 07 Nov 1998 – FNC – Frýdek-Místek
Last IHLC Game  RUS 3-1 CAN  – 29 Dec 2000 – WJC – Moscow
Next IHLC Game  FIN 3-1 SVK – 02 Jan 2001 – WJC – Moscow