The 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship resumes with the semifinals Saturday. The championship and third-place game are Sunday.

Canada is out of the world junior hockey championship, and it was a sour reminder of last year. The host Canadians lost in the final minute of the quarter-final game to Czechia, the same team who knocked them out of the quarter-finals in the 2024 championships.

Hockey Canada executive Scott Salmond says “the buck stops” with him. The country’s men’s under-20 team was eliminated from the world junior hockey championship in the quarterfinals for a second-straight year Thursday.

Canada forward Ethan Gauthier (20) sits on the bench alongside teammates Luca Pinelli (13) and Brayden Yager (11) during the third period of the world junior jockey championship quarter-final as they lose 4-3 to Czechia, in Ottawa, on Jan. 2. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press

The defending champion United States will face Switzerland in the quarterfinals of the world junior hockey championship. What to know about the game:

The defending champion United States beat Switzerland 7-2 in the quarterfinals of the world junior hockey championship. It will face Czechia next.

OTTAWA — James Hagens and Ryan Leonard each scored twice, as the defending-champion Americans cruised into the semifinals of the world junior hockey championship with a 7-2 rout of Switzerland on Thursday.