Brian Gibbons (Braintree, Mass.) nearly opened the scoring three minutes into the game when his shot from below the left faceoff dot was gloved aside by Finnish netminder Harri Sateri. Another three minutes later, Kane saw a shot off a bouncing puck in front of goal get denied as the U.S. continued to sustain pressure.

With 9:43 left in the first, Finland scored when Sebastian Aho’s shot from the left side of the net slid beneath Keith Kinkaid (Farmingville, N.Y.) for the game’s opening goal.

Finland doubled its lead with 2:45 remaining when a dump-in pass from the blue line took a strange bounce off the glass and into the crease where Aho tapped in his second goal of the game.

The second period started with a U.S. power play that saw Kane and Anders Lee (Edina, Minn.) partner together for another quality scoring chance that couldn’t find the back of the net.

Finland then scored with 2:09 left in the second when Mikko Rantanen scored on a rebound off a shot from the point, bringing the score to 3-0 after two periods. 

In the third period, Marko Antilla furthered the Finnish lead 7:42 into the period when Kinkaid’s initial save on a shot from the left side bounced on Antilla’s stick for the tap-in goal.

Kane put Team USA on the board with he scored on the power play off a faceoff win by Cam Atkinson (Riverside, Conn.), bringing the score to 4-1 with 8:27 remaining in the game. 

Just over two minutes later, Finland made it 5-1 when Kasperi Kapanen tallied on a man-advantage opportunity with 6:03 left in regulation.

Ryan converted just :44 later when he batted the puck out of the air off a Kane deflection, bringing the score to 5-2 before Aho tallied an empty-netter with 3:15 to play to account for the 6-2 final.

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