Ivan Morozov scored in overtime to give Russia a 5-4 semi-final win over Sweden and a berth in the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championship gold medal game.

Goal scorer Alexander Khovanov speaks after Russia's semi-final win against Sweden.

Russia showed a strong game on the medal day to beat Finland 6-1 for bronze at the 2020 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship.

The rush for gold is once again a North American affair. To make that happen, the USA had to defeat Russia in this evening’ semi-final and that’s exactly what they did.

Facing the grim prospect of having to play a best-of-three relegation series against Kazakhstan with a loss, Russia stepped up and defeated Germany this afternoon by a 6-1 score.

Team USA scored two goals six seconds apart late in the second period to break a 0-0 deadlock and skated to a 3-1 win over Russia tonight in Ostrava.

It was one of those nights when everything went well for one team—Russia—and nothing went well for the other—Canada. The result was a well-earned 6-0 pasting by the former over the latter.

The Czech Republic opened the 2020 World Junior Championship on home ice with a thrilling 4-3 win over Russia. The Czechs surrendered leads of 2-0 and 3-2, but once ahead 4-3 it got the job done in a tense third for the win.

Here's a video from the World Girls' Ice Hockey Weekend by Agidel Ufa in Russia.