COPENHAGEN — Canada will go after a decoration at the world hockey title for the fourth straight year on account of another grasp objective from Ryan O'Reilly.

O'Reilly scored the diversion victor on a 4-on-3 strategic maneuver with 4:57 into extra minutes Thursday as Canada beat Russia 5-4 and punched its ticket to the elimination rounds in Copenhagen.

Colton Parayko and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins likewise scored strategic maneuver objectives while Kyle Turris and Pierre-Luc Dubois included third-period markers.

"It was forward and backward," said O'Reilly, who additionally scored the amusement victor that disposed of Russia in the 2017 elimination round in Cologne, Germany. "We had the lead different circumstances and going ahead we need to cement those leads and not surrender anything. Be that as it may, we demonstrated great flexibility, we continued scoring. We continued leading the pack and hitting the one in extra minutes was enormous."

The Canadians will confront Switzerland in the elimination rounds in Copenhagen on Saturday. The Swiss progressed with a 3-2 miracle of Finland on Thursday.

Canada came into the quarterfinal as the lower seed after a fairly dull preparatory round execution in residential area Herning. The difference in view appeared to concur with the Canadians in their first time of activity at Royal Arena in Copenhagen.

Canada controlled the play, outshooting Russia 12-4 in the opening edge and taking a 1-0 lead when Parayko discharged an enormous slapshot to the glove side of Igor Shestyorkin at 4:45.

The strategic maneuver objective snapped a 0-for-16 dry spell that had extended more than four preparatory round recreations for Canada. It was the first of the competition permitted by Shestyorkin, who had been flawless in seven times of activity against Slovakia, Belarus and Austria amid preparatory round play.

"We might not have been awesome through the gathering stage but rather we were unsafe today around evening time," said Canada commander Connor McDavid, who grabbed essential helps on each of the three strategic maneuver objectives and now has 16 focuses in eight competition diversions. "We completed a great deal of good things."

The 22-year-old was an unexpected starter set up of the more experienced Vasili Koshechkin, who held down the No. 1 work for the gold decoration winning Olympic Athletes from Russia group at the Pyeongchang Games in February.

Darcy Kuemper made his fifth beginning of the competition for Canada.

The Russians began skating in the second time frame, assembling a 8-3 shot favorable position before Nugent-Hopkins put Canada up 2-0 while Sergei Andronov was serving his second punishment of the amusement at 11:51 of the second time frame.

The Russians raged back with an objective only 1:02 later when Ilya Mikheyev scored after an Artem Anisimov shot hauled Kuemper out of position. Alexander Barabanov leveled the score with an additional aggressor on the ice for a postponed punishment call with 2:28 remaining to play in a moment period where Russia outshot Canada 15-9.

After a mindful begin to the third, Turris put Canada up 3-2 at 7:11, beating a sprawling Shestyorkin between the cushions from the space after a pinpoint go from Jaden Schwartz.

Andronov replied back for Russia only 1:33 later, avoiding a Nikita Zaitsev shot behind Kuemper. At that point, Dubois scored his third of the competition off a bounce back off a Tyson Jost shot with 7:24 remaining to play in the third before Anisimov constrained extra minutes when beat Kuemper high from a terrible edge.