The 2026 IIHF World Championships came to an end on Sunday, and for two Boston Bruins, it became a fairytale ending.<\/p>\n
Team Finland knocked off hosts Team Switzerland in the Gold Medal Game, decided 1-0 in overtime by Konsta Helenius’s overtime goal.<\/p>\n
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Helenius plays for the Buffalo Sabres in the NHL.<\/p>\n
Two Bruins claimed gold with the victory: Henri Jokiharju and Joonas Korpisalo.<\/p>\n
It’s been a fantastic season internationally for the duo, with both picking up a Bronze Medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics, and now adding World Championship Gold into the medal.<\/p>\n
Jokiharju had a phenomenal tournament for Finland, posting two goals and eight points through his 10 games in the tournament.<\/p>\n
Jokiharju was additionally named an MVP of Finland’s victory over Team Canada in the semifinals on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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The final accolade for Jokiharju came in the final 2026 IIHF World Championship All-Star Team, which Jokiharju was named one part of.<\/p>\n
He joined fellow defenseman Roman Josi (SUI), forwards Macklin Celebrini (CAN), Sven Andrighetto (SUI), Aleksander Barkov (FIN), and goaltender Leonardo Genoni (SUI).<\/p>\n
Korpisalo, as he did in the Olympics, mostly backed up the Finnish starter, in this case, it was Justus Annunen. Korpisalo, the B’s and Finnish goaltender, played in two games, posting a 0.50 goals against average and a .947 save percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 IIHF World Championships came to an end on Sunday, and for two Boston Bruins, it became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5099],"tags":[91,154,95,5132,530,229,1754,5,303,1619,4156,29279,501,4,1501,9382,3037,15233,9028],"class_list":["post-588665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-bruins","tag-aleksander-barkov","tag-boston","tag-boston-bruins","tag-bostonbruins","tag-bruins","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-henri-jokiharju","tag-hockey","tag-iihf-world-championships","tag-joonas-korpisalo","tag-justus-annunen","tag-konsta-helenius","tag-macklin-celebrini","tag-nhl","tag-roman-josi","tag-sven-andrighetto","tag-team-canada","tag-team-finland","tag-team-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116675787198055517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}