Russia vs Finland
· Friday, February 20, 1998 · The Big Hat
RussiaAway
7–4
Final21–32
FinlandHome
Game summary
The Russia beat the Finland 7–4 on Friday, February 20, 1998 at The Big Hat. The Finland outshot the Russia 32–21.
Pavel Bure scored 5 goals. Raimo Helminen, Kimmo Rintanen, Teemu Selanne, Alexei Zhamnov, Saku Koivu and Andrei Kovalenko also scored.
Mikhail Shtalenkov made 0 saves on 32 shots for the win; Jarmo Myllys stopped 0 of 20.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RUS | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 21 |
| FIN | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 32 |
Scoring
1st period
Pavel Bure (5)Alexei Zhamnov (1)1–009:51 RUS · - Pavel Bure (6)Dmitri Mironov (3)2–017:28 RUS
2nd period
- Pavel Bure (7)Unassisted3–000:59 RUS
Raimo Helminen (2)Juha Lind (1)3–103:28 FIN
Kimmo Rintanen (1)Jari Kurri (3), Kimmo Timonen (1)3–204:59 FIN
Teemu Selanne (4)Saku Koivu (6), Jari Kurri (4)3–314:07 FIN · 
Alexei Zhamnov (2)Alexei Zhitnik (2)4–317:26 RUS ·
3rd period
Saku Koivu (2)Teemu Selanne (6)4–405:15 FIN
Andrei Kovalenko (4)Sergei Fedorov (5)5–406:33 RUS- Pavel Bure (8)Unassisted6–415:58 RUS
- Pavel Bure (9)Alexei Yashin (3), Boris Mironov (2)7–419:55 RUS ·
Team stats
RUSFIN
2132
0%0%
2/31/6
126
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:05 into the first periodJanne Niinimaa · tripping2 min
- 10:26 into the first periodBoris Mironov · tripping2 min
- 13:34 into the first periodJanne Niinimaa · holding2 min
- 18:54 into the first periodGerman Titov · hooking2 min
- 6:37 into the second periodSergei Krivokrasov · high sticking2 min
- 12:08 into the second periodAlexei Zhitnik · holding2 min
- 13:53 into the second periodBoris Mironov · cross checking2 min
- 16:24 into the second periodJuha Lind · holding2 min
- 12:01 into the third periodAlexei Gusarov · elbowing2 min
Russia
| 10Pavel BureR | 5 | 0 | 5 | +2 | 9 | – |
| 33Alexei ZhamnovC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 19Alexei YashinC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 51Andrei KovalenkoR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 91Sergei FedorovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 2Boris MironovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 15Dmitri MironovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Sergei NemchinovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 9Sergei KrivokrasovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 13Valeri KamenskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 14German TitovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 20Valeri BureR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Aleksey MorozovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Valeri ZelepukinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Dmitry YushkevichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Alexei GusarovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 11Darius KasparaitisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 29Igor KravchukD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Andrei TrefilovG | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| 35Mikhail ShtalenkovG | W | 32 | 4 | .875 |
Finland
| 8Teemu SelanneR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 9 | – |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 17Jari KurriR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Raimo HelminenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Juha LindL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25Kimmo RintanenL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 4Kimmo TimonenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 10Esa TikkanenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Antti TormanenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Ville PeltonenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Jere LehtinenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 24Sami KapanenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 37Juha YlonenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 40Mika NieminenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Aki BergD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 6Tuomas GronmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Janne LaukkanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Jyrki LummeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 44Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Ari SulanderG | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| 35Jarmo MyllysG | L | 20 | 6 | .700 |