2015 World Junior A Challenge

Cobourg & Whitby, Ont., Dec. 13-19, 2015

Wednesday results

Team Canada East defeated the Czech Republic 3-2 in a quarter-final in Whitby, Ont.

• Tyler Rollo (Burlington, Ont./Oakville, OJHL) scored goals three minutes apart midway through the third period, breaking open a 1-1 tie, and the easterners held off a late Czech charge to advance and set up an all-Canadian semifinal match-up against Team Canada West.

 

Next games

Thursday, Dec. 17 (Semifinals)

Team Canada East vs. Team Canada West – 7 p.m. ET (at Cobourg)

United States vs. Russia – 7 p.m. ET (at Whitby)

 

Friday, Dec. 18

Czech Republic vs. Switzerland – 7 p.m. ET (fifth-place game at Cobourg)

Bronze-medal game – 7 p.m. ET (at Whitby)

 

Saturday Dec. 19

Gold-medal game – 4 p.m. ET (at Cobourg)

 

“I benched Rollo in the second period, because he wasn’t really having a great period; he got off to a slow start, and I was kind of waiting for him and gave him an opportunity in the third period. He got that big hit in the neutral zone and after that it was kind of like he was taking control of the game.”

– Jason Clarke, head coach, Team Canada East