The United States and Canada will meet in the gold medal game of the IIHF World U20 Championship tonight for the only the third time in the 37-year history of the tournament. The Americans beat Sweden 5-2 in Sunday's semifinal round, hours after Canada topped Switzerland 6-1.
The NHL Network will broadcast the game in the United States, TSN in Canada. The game will also be streamed online at TSN.ca. Face-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
From TSN:
In their last battle, Canada rallied from a 4-2 third-period deficit to earn a 5-4 shootout victory and American defenceman Cam Fowler knows they must play the full 60 minutes to win a gold medal.
"That New Year's Eve game was a bit of a shock for us," said the Spitfires defenceman, who will be facing four Windsor teammates on Tuesday. "We thought we played a great game and just fell apart in the last 10 minutes. I think we want it just as bad as the Canadians do.[...]
Defenceman Travis Hamonic, one half of Canada's shutdown pairing with Marco Scandella, will not play in the gold medal game after suffering a separated shoulder as a result of a questionable hit late in the semi-final win over Switzerland.
"Travis is such a great kid," said Team Canada assistant coach Dave Cameron. "To work hard to get here and to be such a big part of it and then to have his moment of glory and the gold medal game be taken away on a bad hit, you feel really, really bad for the kid."
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