EDMONTON, Alberta — Ville Koivunen scored twice as Finland routed Austria 7-1 on Monday at the world junior hockey championship.
Brad Lambert had a goal and two assists for Finland (2-0), while Kalle Vaisanen, Samuel Helenius, Kasper Simontaival, and Topi Niemela also scored.
Goalie Juha Jatkola made eight saves.
Martin Urbanek was the lone scorer for Austria (0-1), while Sebastian Wraneschitz stopped 41 shots in net.
After Monday’s games, Finland led the Group A standings with six points from two regulation wins, followed by Canada (three points), Germany (two points), the Czech Republic (one point) and Austria (zero points).
Also in Edmonton, Alexander Blank scored his second goal of the game in overtime as Germany defeated the Czech Republic 2-1.
Blank scored at 1:20 of the extra frame to give the Germans (1-1) their first win of the tournament.
Blank opened the scoring at 24:29 of the second period, but Jan Mysak tied it just over 10 minutes later.
Florian Bugl made 39 saves for Germany.
Jan Bednar stopped 30 shots for the Czech Republic (0-2).
At Red Deer, Alberta, Danila Yurov had a goal and an assist as Russia beat Switzerland 4-2.
Pavel Tyutnev scored late in the first period as Russia (1-1) jumped out to an early 3-0 lead.
Dmitri Zlodeyev and Matvei Michkov also scored for Russia.
Attilio Biasca and Fabian Ritzmann scored for Switzerland (0-1).
Over in Group B, the United States, 1-0 after opening Sunday, will take on Switzerland on Tuesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.