World Championship: Marner carries Canada past Finns
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Here's what happened on Day 12 of the World Hockey Championship in Paris, France and Cologne, Germany.
Canada 5, Finland 2
- Mitch Marner led the way offensively for Canada
United States 5, Russia 3
- The U.S. rallied three times in its final preliminary-round game to win its sixth consecutive contest and hand Russia its first loss at the tournament.
- Anders Lee scored the eventual game-winner on the power play with about seven minutes left.
- Kevin Hayes' second goal of the game - and the period - knotted the contest at 3-3 with 2:17 to go in the middle stanza.
- Brock Nelson scored a goal and added two assists to lead all skaters with three points.
- Nikita Gusev opened the scoring and tallied twice for Russia.
- The U.S. outshot Russia 16-3 in the first period.
- The American squad (6-0-0-1) finished the preliminary round atop the Group A standings, one point ahead of Russia (5-1-0-1).
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