Forward wins it at 1:49; Gustavsson leaves after 1st period with illness
Finland at Sweden | Recap | 4 Nations Face-Off
MONTREAL — Mikael Granlund scored 1:49 into overtime, and Finland stayed alive in the 4 Nations Face-Off with a 4-3 win against Sweden at Bell Centre on Saturday.
Granlund won it when he kept the puck on a 3-on-1 and scored with a shot from the right circle.
Anton Lundell, Mikko Rantanen and Aleksander Barkov also scored for Finland (0-1-0-1), which trailed 3-2 entering the third period. Patrik Laine had two assists, and Kevin Lankinen made 21 saves.
Mika Zibanejad, Rasmus Dahlin and Erik Karlsson scored for Sweden (0-0-2-0). Linus Ullmark took over in goal at the start of the second period and made 15 saves in relief of Filip Gustavsson, who left after the first period with an illness. He allowed two goals on four shots.
Zibanejad gave Sweden a 1-0 lead at 8:35 of the first period, scoring off a Finland defensive-zone turnover with a shot from between the circles.
Finland tied it 1-1 at 10:58 when Lundell scored off a 2-on-1 with Eetu Luostarinen with Florida Panthers teammate Gustav Forsling the lone Swede back.
Rantanen scored a power-play goal at 19:46 to give Finland a 2-1 lead. He nearly flubbed the one-timer on Laine’s pass across to him in the right circle, but the puck fluttered and snuck between Gustavsson and the right post.
Sweden tied it 2-2 on Dahlin’s goal at 5:06 of the second. Lucas Raymond’s shot from the point got through and Joel Eriksson Ek, with only his right hand on his stick, was able to find the rebound and slide the puck across to Dahlin.
Karlsson gave Sweden a 3-2 lead with a goal off a 3-on-2 rush at 10:32. He raced to catch up with William Nylander, who had space and found Karlsson in the right circle for a one-timer.
Finland countered again with Barkov scoring off a netfront deflection at 17:05 to make it 3-3. Rantanen made a spin-o-rama pass from the top of the left circle to Olli Maatta on the right side. He passed the puck toward the far post, and it hit off Kaapo Kakko’s stick blade and went in off Barkov’s stick blade.
The United States and Canada will play the second of two games here Saturday (8 p.m. ET; ABC, ESPN+, SN, TVAS). The U.S. would clinch a berth in the final with a regulation win.
FIN@SWE: Granlund goes five-hole on Ullmark to win it in overtime
