Sebastian Aho scored twice and Mikko Koskinen stopped 28 of 29 shots as Finland defeated Russia 3-1 in their semifinal at the World Hockey Championship in St. Petersburg on Saturday.
Finland moves on to the gold medal game, in which they'll meet the winner of Saturday's other semifinal between Canada and the United States.
All three Finnish goals came in the middle stanza. Jussi Jokinen notched the eventual game-winning goal and Aho fired home his second power-play goal of the period, seeing Finland score twice in a span of 2:25 to take a two-goal lead before the intermission.
Finland returns to the gold medal game for the first time since 2014, when they lost to Russia. The Finns last won gold in 2011, when they defeated Sweden.
Finland has a chance to be first team to sweep men's world championship events in a single season with gold at U18 and WJC previously.
— Chris Peters (@chrismpeters) May 21, 2016
Russia outshot Finland 13-2 in the third and 29-16 in the game.
Sergei Bobrovsky allowed three goals on 16 shots for Russia. Sergei Shirokov opened the scoring for the tournament hosts less than three minutes into the game.
