Finland - Canada Gameday

There is a ridiculous amount of world junior hockey on today, and it all gets rolling with Team Canada taking on Team Finland at 4:30pm today. TSN’s pre-game show begins at 4pm.

Here are the expected line combos for Team Canada, as tweeted by TSN’s Bob McKenzie.

Schwartz – Scheifele – Gallagher
Huberdeau – Strome – Stone
Howden - Freddie Hamilton - Smith-Pelly
Bournival – Jenner - Connolly
Pearson 

Gormley-Dougie Hamilton
Harrington-Murray
Oleksiak-Pysyk
Beaulieu 

Mark Visentin is expected to start in goal. Should be interesting. 

The other games today: Latvia vs Sweden at 6:30pm, Denmark vs USA at 9pm, and Switzerland vs Russia at 11pm. All three of these games can be seen on TSN2.

Some stuff:

• Buzzing The Net examines the changes to Canada’s line combos.
• CTV Montreal has an article about the three Canadiens prospects playing for Team Canada.
• The Hockey Writers’ Slovakia preview.
• Puck Worlds has a Team Canada preview, medal predictions and a preview of today’s action.
• Puck Daddy’s WJC viewing guide. Tomas Jurco is listed as one of the players to watch.
• In TSN's world junior preview show, Sea Dogs forward Charlie Coyle was named the No. 4 player to watch at this year's tournament. Nifty stuff.