Russia - Norway. A statistical look
- At 20 years, 9 months and 12 days old, Ilya Sorokin took his first national team shutout in his 10th appearance. Only Andrei Vasilevskiy was younger than him when he kept the opponents off the board for the first time - 19 years, 9 months and 23 days old (3:0 against Germany on the 18th of May 2014).
- However, the overall Soviet record belongs to Vladislav Tretyak, who was 17 years and 11 months old when he prevented Poland from scoring (11:0 on the 25th of March 1970).
- Defenseman Alexei Emelin played in his 100th Russian match, and he has 15 points (5+10). Ten of those have come at World Championships (4+6).
- Stepan Sannikov took to the ice for Russia for the tenth time.
- Sergei Plotnikov has 15 points (7+8) from 25 World Championship games.
- Fellow forward Sergei Kalinin now has five points (5+5) from separate editions of this competition.
- From only 16 World Championship matches, Artemiy Panarin already has 20 points (9+11).
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