2009-05-02 23:24:04 -
ZURICH (AP) - Oleg Antonenko scored a winning overtime penalty for the second time at the ice hockey world championship as Belarus gained an extra point after tying Finland 1-1 on Saturday.
The result gave Belarus six points and a likely spot in the quarterfinals. It will progress if heavily favored Canada beats Norway on Sunday.
Belarus took the lead in surprising fashion, with Sergei Demagin scoring just five seconds in with a wrist shot past Finland goaltender Pekka Rinne.
Andrei Mezin then kept the Finns at bay for most of the game, conceding only a power-play goal in the second period to Janne Niskala.
That set up penalty shots and Antonenko, who scored twice in Belarus' surprising shootout win over Slovakia, was again the hero.
His opening score was offset by Petteri Nummelin's goal, with Jarkko Immonen and Mikhail Grabovski then trading goals. Given second attempts, Antonenko then wristed another into the net while Nummelin shot wide.