TORONTO – Martin Brodeur made 27 saves, and Brad Richards, Kris Draper and Joe Sakic scored goals to help Canada beat Russia 3-1 on Saturday night in the World Cup of Hockey, giving the Canadians a 3-0 record in round-robin play.

Canada will play the last-place team in the North American pool in the quarterfinals on Wednesday night in Toronto.

Richards opened the scoring with a short-handed goal early in the second period, and Draper made it 2-0 just 1:37 later. Sakic scored early in the third period, and Russia’s Sergei Gonchar completed the scoring midway through the period.

“We did what we have to do,” Draper said. “We’re 3-0, but we have to realize that we need to get better. It’s do or die from here.”

Russia (1-1) will complete play in the four-team pool Sunday night in Toronto against Slovakia (0-2). The United States (1-2) finished pool play Friday night with a 3-1 victory over Slovakia in St. Paul, Minn.

Finland 4, Sweden 4

HELSINKI, Finland – Finland didn’t get its long-awaited revenge on Sweden, but a 4-4 tie was good enough to win the European Pool at the World Cup of Hockey.

The Nordic rivals both finished unbeaten with five points, but the Finns won the pool on goal differential.

Sweden’s Tomas Holmstrom scored a power-play goal with just 11 seconds left in regulation.

Neither team could get a goal in the five-minute overtime period.

“Our start was strong, but Sweden is a world-class team with a truckload of skill, and they started to score on the power-play, so the game was soon a new one,” said Finland captain Saku Koivu, who scored one goal. “But we gritted ourselves to the end.”

Finland now faces Germany, which lost all three round robin games, on Monday. Sweden plays an improving Czech Republic team on Tuesday.

Sweden pulled goalie Mikael Tellqvist 38 seconds into the extra period, but the gamble didn’t pay off.

Finland, which blew a 5-1 lead and lost 6-5 to Sweden in the quarterfinals of the 2003 world championship in the same arena, never trailed in the game.

Tellqvist gave up two goals during the first four minutes before the boisterous flag-waving crowd that also included a few thousand Swedish fans.

Ville Peltonen scored just 1:39 in and Ossi Vaananen added a power play goal at 4:34 to give Finland a 2-0 lead.

Fredrik Modin of the Tampa Bay Lightning scored the first of his two goals on the power play at 12:27 to cut the lead to 2-1.

It was the first goal Finnish goalie Miikka Kiprusoff conceded in more than 132 minutes of tournament play. The Calgary Flames goalie shut out the Czechs (4-0) and the Germans (3-0) in the first two games.

Koivu restored the Finns’ two-goal cushion just 19 seconds after Modin’s goal.

“You always have to try to improve things, but there was plenty of good things from our unit – we created four, five great chances but could not convert them,” Koivu said.

Goals by defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom and Modin late in the first period pulled the Swedes back to 3-3.

Olli Jokinen, who was the Florida Panthers’ top goal scorer last season, gave Finland a 4-3 lead 38 seconds into the second period.

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