The four quarter-final games for the world junior hockey championships are being played on Saturday. Canada is currently playing Finland and the United States plays the Czech Republic at 1 p.m. ET.
Here is how the other two games played out:
Russians lucky to advance past Denmark
Russia narrowly defeated Denmark Saturday morning to advance to Monday's semifinals in a game that was closer than most anticipated. A fairly easy win was expected for Russia, though the team trailed until late in the third period.
Russian forward Vladislav Kamenev scored with 44 seconds remaining to tie the game 3-3, forcing the game to overtime.
Kamenev scored again in overtime, netting the game-winning goal with five minutes left in the period to advance Russia to the semifinals.
After scoring the first and only goal of the first period, Russia fell behind Denmark and trailed most of the game, beyond a brief two-minute stint being tied late in the third.
Russia's other two goals were scored by Yegor Korshkov and Artur Lauta in the first and third periods, respectively. Danish goals came from Thomas Olsen and Markus Jensen during the second period to put them up 2-1. Emil Christensen scored Denmark's third goal in the third period.
The Russians outshot the Danes 46-21, and will play the winner of the Czech Republic-United States quarter-final.
Slovakia no match for Sweden
Unlike Russia having all it can handle with Denmark, Sweden had no trouble with Slovakia in their quarter-final matchup.
Joel Eriksson Ek opened the scoring for Sweden five minutes into the first period, and Oskar Lindblom scored their second goal on the power play just after the 10 minute mark.
Sweden would eventually go on to win the game 6-0, with goals from Christoffer Ehn, Adrian Kempe, Jens Looke and Alex Nylander.
The balanced attack from Sweden kept Slovakia on edge all game and has been a staple of the team all tournament, as no player is averaging more than two points per game (Alex Nylander leads team with 1.6 points per game) and 15 different players have score goals.
Sweden flexed their muscles in this one, outshooting Slovakia 55-17.
The Swedes were heavy favourites heading into their quarter-final matchup with Slovakia. They went 4-0 during the preliminary round and finished atop group A. Slovakia went just 1-3 and finished fourth in group B.
Sweden will play either Canada or Finland in their semifinal match on Monday.
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