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Samuel Helenius scored twice, Kari Piiroinen made 12 saves and Finland beat Slovakia 6-0 on Wednesday to enhance to 3-0 in group play on the earth junior hockey championship.
Finland arrange a showdown with defending champion Canada, additionally 3-0, on Thursday night time for first place in Group A. Germany and Slovakia additionally reached the quarterfinals from the group, with Switzerland dropping out.
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Santeri Hatakka, Kasper Simontaival, Topi Niemela and Anton Lundell additionally scored for Finland.
Germany beat Switzerland 5-4 to advance to the playoff spherical for the primary time. John Peterka and Tim Stutzle had palms in all 5 objectives, with Peterka having a hat trick and two assists and Stutzle two objectives and three assists.
Later, Sweden confronted Russia in Group B.
The USA will end Group B play Thursday night time towards Sweden.
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