The 2022 IIHF World Championship final decided the winner of the 2022 IIHF World Championship. It was played at the Tampere Deck Arena in Tampere, Finland on 29 May 2022.^[1]

Finland and Canada faced each other for the third consecutive time in the finals, and sixth overall. Finland won in 2019, while Canada prevailed in 2021.^[2][3] Finland took the gold with a 4–3 overtime win.^[4]

Finland		Round	Canada
Opponent	Result	Preliminary round	Opponent	Result
Norway	5–0	Game 1	Germany	5–3
Latvia	2–1	Game 2	Italy	6–1
United States	4–1	Game 3	Slovakia	5–1
Sweden	2–3 (GWS)	Game 4	Kazakhstan	6–3
Great Britain	6–0	Game 5	Switzerland	3–6
Austria	3–0	Game 6	Denmark	2–3
Czechia	3–0	Game 7	France	7–1
Pos Team Pld Pts 1  Finland (H) 7 19 2  Sweden 7 18 3  Czechia 7 13 4  United States 7 13 5  Latvia 7 8 6  Austria 7 7 7  Norway 7 5 8  Great Britain (R) 7 1 Source: IIHF (H) Host; (R) Relegated		Preliminary	Pos Team Pld Pts 1   Switzerland 7 20 2  Germany 7 16 3  Canada 7 15 4  Slovakia 7 12 5  Denmark 7 12 6  France 7 5 7  Kazakhstan 7 3 8  Italy (R) 7 1 Source: IIHF (R) Relegated
Opponent	Result	Playoff	Opponent	Result
Slovakia	4–2	Quarterfinals	Sweden	4–3 (OT)
United States	4–3	Semifinals	Czechia	6–1

29 May 2022 20:20

Finland

4–3 OT (0–0, 0–1, 3–2, 1–0)

Canada

Tampere Deck Arena, Tampere Attendance: 11,487

Game reference
	Juho Olkinuora	Goalies	Chris Driedger Matt Tomkins	Referees: Mikael Nord Linus Öhlund Linesmen: Nick Briganti Šimon Synek
	0–1 24:00 – Cozens (Barzal, Severson) (PP) Granlund (Heiskanen, Lehtonen) (PP2) – 44:13 1–1 Granlund (Lehtonen, Hartikainen) (PP) – 45:57 2–1 Armia (Lammikko) – 54:04 3–1 3–2 57:48 – Whitecloud (Barzal, Anderson) (EA) 3–3 58:36 – Comtois (Barzal, Batherson) (EA) Manninen (Granlund, Heiskanen) (PP) – 66:42 4–3
	4 min	Penalties	10 min
	31	Shots	22

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