Teenager Patrik Laine had two goals and one assist Friday in leading Finland past Belarus 6-2 on the opening day of the World Championship in Russia.

Laine, 18, was the MVP of both the Finnish League regular season and playoffs this year and is expected to be a top pick - perhaps even No. 1 overall - in next month's NHL draft.

Detroit Red Wings forward Teemu Pulkkinen had two shots and a plus-1 rating for Finland while seeing 14:01 of ice time.

Mikael Granlund of the Minnesota Wild also scored twice for Finland, which got single goals from Mikko Koivu of the Wild and Antti Pihlstrom. Aleksander Barkov of the Florida Panthers had two assists.

Alexei Kalyuzhny and Andrei Stas scored for Belarus.

Czech Republic 3, Russia 0: Red Wings Pavel Datsyuk and Alexey Marchenko were both held without a point in Russia's loss. Datsyuk had two shots in 18:02 of ice time while Marchenko had no shots in 17:16. Both had even plus-minus ratios. Roman Cervenka, Michal Birner and Tomas Kundratek scored for the Czechs.

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