OTTAWA — Jesse Kiiskinen was sitting in the sleeping quarters while serving his mandatory Finnish military service in the army when his phone rang with a call from Nashville Predators general ...

On paper, the evidence is suggesting that Detroit Red Wings prospect Jesse Kiiskinen is enjoying a strong IIHF World Junior Championship for Finland. He’s leading the Finns in goals (four) and points ...

There will be Detroit Red Wings prospects on both sides of the battle in Sunday’s gold medal game at the IIHF World Junior Championship in Ottawa. Just not the one everyone was expecting to be there.

The semifinals are Saturday in Ottawa. Sweden, with defenseman Axel Sandin Pellikka, faces Finland, with right wing Jesse Kiiskinen, at 3:30 p.m. The United States, with goaltender Trey Augustine ...

Finland takes a 1-0 lead after a power-play goal from Jesse Kiiskinen. And they’ve still held the Americans to one shot on goal nearly halfway through the first period. When you look at the ...

Max Plante and Trey Augustine will represent Team USA, Axel Sandin-Pellikka will represent Sweden, and Jesse Kiiskinen will represent Finland. The two American enter the tournament from different ...

Emil Hemming had a goal and an assist and Jesse Kiiskinen and Arttu Alasiurua also scored. Otto Stenberg scored twice for Sweden. Wilhelm Hallquisth also scored and Thelin stopped 31 shots. Finland ...

The United States will try to win back-to-back titles when it faces Finland in the gold-medal game of the world junior hockey championship.

Emil Pieniniemi made it 3-1 at 4:52 of the second. Jesse Kiiskinen opened the scoring at 7:13. "We kept just growing up day-by-day," Finnish captain Aron Kiviharju said. "We were really close to ...

Jesse Kiiskinen and Kasper Halttunen also scored for Finland. In Group B, Switzerland beat Kazakhstan 3-1 to secure a spot in the quarterfinal round, and Sweden completed a sweep of its four ...

In the third-place game, Eduard Sale scored in the 14th round of a shootout to give Czechia a 3-2 victory over Sweden on Sunday in the third-place game at the world junior hockey championship. The ...