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World Junior Hockey Championship 2025: Quarterfinal Bracket Scores and Results

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World Junior Hockey Championship 2025: Quarterfinal Bracket Scores and Results

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The quest for a repeat is still alive for Team USA while Canada’s hope for a tournament victory on home ice came to an end.

The Americans advanced to the medal round with a 7-2 victory over Switzerland in the quarterfinal round of the 2025 IIHF World Junior Ice Hockey Tournament. The U.S, who won last year’s tournament, are aiming to be the first American repeat champion in the 49-year history of the tournament.

Canada, on the other hand, fell 4-3 to Czechia after a late penalty and will not advance to the medal round for the second consecutive year.

In addition to the U.S’s victory and Canada’s loss, here’s a look at the other scores of the day and the remaining tournament schedule.

Relegation: Germany def. Kazakhstan, 4-3.

United States def. Switzerland, 7-2

Finland def. Slovakia, 5-3

Sweden vs. Finland, 3:30 p.m. ET

United States vs. Czechia, 7:30 p.m. ET

Third-Place Game: TBD vs. TBD, 3:30 P.M. ET.

Gold Medal Game: TBD vs. TBD, 7:30 P.M. ET.

Click here for full schedule and results.

Latvia’s tournament comes to an end after an excellent run that saw the country pull of an upset over Canada and hang tight with No. 1 seed Sweden.

Sweden jumped out to a 3-0 lead with the first two goals coming in the opening period. The goals came from Zeb Forsfjäll, Anton Wahlberg and David Edstrom.

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Latvia wasn’t looking to go down easy and a pair of goals in the middle frame from Eriks Mateiko made things interesting.

However, the Swedes limited Latvia to just two shots in the final period and secured a spot in the medal round for the fourth consecutive tournament.

United States 7, Switzerland 2

The potent U.S. offense showed exactly what it was capable of with four first period goals in a dominant victory.

Brandon Svoboda, James Hagens, Ryan Leonard and Danny Nelson found the back of the net in the first period while

Hagens and Leonard each added another tally in the second period while Zeev Buium added the other U.S. goal. Nils Rhyn and Andro Kaderli were the goal scorers for the Swiss.

Slovakia proved to be a worthy opponent for a strong Finland team but they did not have quite enough to pull off the upset.

Slovakia actually outshot Finland 36-19 in the game but a strong effort from Finnish netminder Petteri Rimpinin and some timely offense helped keep the team ahead,

Finland jumped out to a 4-1 lead but Slovakia was able to cut it to a 4-3 deficit late in the third period. That’s when Jessi Nurmi provided a key insurance goal to give Rimpinin some breathing room

It was the worst case of déjà vu imaginable for Canada.

The team fell to Czechia in the quarterfinal round of the 2024 tournament in Sweden and were looking to avenge that loss in their home country. Instead, undisciplined play and timely scoring led Czechia to the victory.

Czechia had a double dagger in the opening period, with goals in both the first and last minute. Petr Sikora opened up the scoring before Tanner Howe evened it up. Jakub Stancl re-established the lead moments later and Eduard Sale provided the last minute dagger to give his team a 3-1 lead.

Porter Martone cut the deficit to one in the second period and Bradly Nadeau tied it with just four minutes remaining in the game.

However, Andrew Gibson took a kneeing penalty moments later, setting up a late powerplay for Czechia to secure a victory. Adam Jecho made sure his team wouldn’t waste this opportunity.

Czechia advances to the medal round for the second consecutive year and will hope to carry some of this momentum over to a matchup with the U.S.

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