Canada won its 24th world hockey championship title on Sunday by beating Finland 4-2.
Rick Nash scored two goals for the Canadians, who last won the gold in 2004. Eric Staal and Colby Armstrong also scored for Canada, while Petri Kontiola and Antii Miettinen scored for Finland.
"I always feel our emotional well as hockey players runs deeper than any other country," Canada coach Andy Murray said. "When Rick Nash was carrying that puck, he was carrying the emotions of 31 million Canadians."
Canada has won 24 senior and 13 junior world titles, as well as seven Olympic golds and five Canada Cup and World Cup titles.
Earlier, Russia won the bronze medal by beating Sweden 3-1.
Canada took a 2-0 lead in the opening period on a pair of power-play goals. Nash flicked the puck waist-high past Finland goalie Kari Lehtonen at 6:30, and Staal batted in a bouncing pass from Mike Cammalleri seven minutes later.
At 9:11 in the second period, Dion Phaneuf fed Armstrong, who wristed in a shot from the top of the circle under Lehtonen's arm.
Finland rallied in the final period. Kontiola knocked in a pass from Ville Peltonen behind the net at 11:08, and Miettinen brought the Finns back within one during a goal-mouth scramble with less than three minutes remaining.
"It was tough," Nash said. "Everyone was panicking and Andy kept us calm. He said `Boys, calm down. We've only got two minutes left to win this.'"
The Finns came close to tying the score when a quick shot by Tomi Kallio barely missed Cam Ward's left post.
It was that puck that Nash picked up before scoring from close range with about a minute to go, despite being gripped around the waist and taken down by Finland defenseman Pekka Saravo.
"We had to score a goal so I was a little bit thinking too much about scoring," Saravo said. "I didn't want to take a penalty so I tried to push him a bit but he was strong on his course so he fell."
It marked the first meeting between Canada and Finland in a world championship final since 1994, when Canada won.
Alexei Emelin, Sergei Zinoviev and Alexander Frolov each scored for Russia, which has not won the world title since 1993. The Russians also won the bronze in 2005.
"The win today was very important," Russia defenseman Sergei Gonchar said. "We were playing in front of our home crowd. People were supporting us, cheering for us even after our loss to Finland last night, saying things like `Good job.' Before the game we all agreed we can't lose this last match."
Emelin gave Russia the lead at 6:18 in the first period with a short-handed rush, flicking a backhand past Sweden goalie Johan Backlund.
"The first goal was huge for us," Russia forward Sergei Brylin said. "Both teams played last night so it wasn't easy but we jumped ahead."
Less than four minutes later, Zinoviev added another, knocking in Emelin's rebound that had bounced off Backlund's skate. Frolov scored on the power play 1:04 into the second period, tipping in Vitali Artyushov's shot from the point.
Alexander Steen -- the only NHL player on Sweden's roster -- spoiled the shutout at 8:08 into the final period when he scored with a shot from the slot.
"Unfortunately we made a couple of mistakes in the first period and were two goals down," Sweden coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson said. "It was very hard to get things going our way."
Last year, Sweden won both the Olympic and world titles -- the first country to do so.
Scott Niedermayer scored with 5:43 left in overtime to lift the Anaheim Ducks over the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 on Sunday leaving the NHL Western Conference finals at a game apiece.
Detroit went ahead for the first time at 1:03 into the third period, when a two-man advantage created space for Pavel Datsyuk's one-timer off a crisp pass from Robert Lang.
The 3-2 lead didn't last long.
Travis Moen tied the game four minutes later, giving the Ducks their second straight goal that required a video review.
Swarming defense limited scoring chances for the rest of regulation and when shots did go toward the net, Detroit's Dominik Hasek and Anaheim's Jean-Sebastien Giguere turned them away.
Hasek had 29 saves and Giguere finished with 24.
Game 3 is today.
In the first two periods, the Ducks took the lead twice and Detroit tied the game each time.
Rob Niedermayer scored at 17:04 of the first period and Kirk Maltby answered with a short-handed goal midway through the second.
Andy McDonald scored a little more than a minute after Maltby to put Anaheim ahead 2-1. Nicklas Lidstrom tied it at 16:07 of the second period with a power-play goal.
Anaheim's win guarantees the series will not end with a sweep for the first time in four matchups.
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