How to watch
Puck drop: 8:00 PM EST / 5:00 PM PST
In Canada: TSN1, TSN4, TSN5, TSN4K (English,) RDS (French)
In the United States: NHL Network
Live stream: TSN Direct, RDS Direct
Team Canada got off to a hot start on the first day of the World Juniors. Denmark had no answer for the likes of Morgan Frost, Maxime Comtois, and Cody Glass in a 14-0 drubbing on Wednesday, as 19 of the 21 players — including goaltender Mikey DiPietro — had points in the game. The team will be raring to get back in action tonight.
They’ll line up against a Swiss team that looked overmatched in their opener versus the Czech Republic in the first period, but found their legs in the final two, and took last year’s fourth-place finisher to overtime to earn what could end up being an important point.
The Swiss won’t survive a slow start today versus Canada, so they’ll need to hit the ground running when the puck drops. There is a decent amount of offensive creativity to be found among Switzerland’s skaters. As long as they can stay defensively sound, they may be able to get a few counter-punch chances the other way.
Canada will be heavily favoured to run their record to 2-0 today, but you can never count out the Swiss at the World Juniors.
Team Canada projected lineup
Forwards
| Left Wing |
Centre |
Right Wing |
| #14 Maxime Comtois |
#8 Cody Glass |
#21 Owen Tippett |
| #22 Alexis Lafrenière |
#11 Jaret Anderson-Dolan |
#17 Nick Suzuki |
| #26 Morgan Frost |
#27 Barrett Hayton |
#20 Brett Leason |
| #9 Joseph Veleno |
#15 Shane Bowers |
#23 Jack Studnicka |
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#16 MacKenzie Entwistle |
Defencemen
| Left Defence |
Right Defence |
| #18 Markus Phillips |
#2 Evan Bouchard |
| #3 Josh Brook |
#5 Ian Mitchell |
| #24 Ty Smith |
#6 Noah Dobson |
| #4 Jared McIsaac |
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Goaltenders
| Goaltenders |
| #31 Ian Scott |
| #1 Mikey DiPietro |
Team Switzerland projected lineup
Forwards
| Left Wing |
Centre |
Right Wing |
| #18 Valentin Nussbaumer |
#23 Philipp Kurashev |
#9 Nicolas Müller |
| #12 Jeremi Gerber |
#14 Sandro Schmid |
#10 Yannick Brüschweiler |
| #22 Nando Eggenberger |
#13 Justin Sigrist |
#15 Matthew Verboon |
| #6 Marco Lehmann |
#20 Ramon Tanner |
#11 Sven Leuenberger |
Defencemen
| Left Defence |
Right Defence |
| #4 Simon le Coultre |
#16 Nico Gross |
| #21 Tim Berni |
#26 David Aebischer |
| #8 Janis Jérôme Moser |
#19 Davyd Barandun |
Goaltenders
| Goaltenders |
| #30 Luca Hollentstein |
| #29 Akira Schmid |
