Canada will face Switzerland this afternoon at 4:30 pm AST in a quarter-final matchup at the World Junior Hockey Championships. TSN’s coverage begins at 4:00 pm with the pre-game show.
News out of Buffalo is that Mark Visentin will replace Olivier Roy in the Canadian goal today. The Niagara Ice Dog netminder played in Canada’s 10-1 blowout win over Norway earlier this week which was his only start of the tournament so far.
“All the confidence in the world in Mark,” Canada’s head coach Dave Cameron said Sunday morning to the National Post. “Real good goaltender.”
The change isn’t that much of a surprise as Roy struggled Friday against Sweden, allowing a few weak goals and producing some big rebounds. After last year’s goaltending fiasco, it would certainly be nice to know who truly is the best goaltender moving forward.
Zach Kassian will also return today after serving a two-game suspension.
Canada is coming off a 6-5 shootout loss against Sweden which forced them to play in this quarter-final game rather than earn a bye to Monday’s semi-final. The winner of today’s contest will play the United States tomorrow.
The Swiss is coming off a loss against the U.S. Friday. The team’s most dangerous player is Nino Niederreiter, who almost stuck with the New York Islanders this year.
OTHER GAMES
The other quarter-final tonight at HSBC Arena features Finland taking on Russia. The winner of that game will face Sweden in the other semi-final tomorrow.
Tomas Jurco and the Slovaks open the relegation round today against Norway. The other relegation match features the Czech Republic facing off against Germany.
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