The USA defeated Czechia and Finland beat Sweden in the semifinals of the world junior hockey championship. Highlights from Saturday's action.

Meanwhile, Sweden will play for bronze as they did during the 2023 tournament in the Canadian Maritimes. The Swedes have two gold medals to show for in their entire history at the World Juniors.

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

USA cracked a brick wall in overtime to beat Finland and win their second-straight gold at the world juniors, while Czechia defeated Sweden for bronze. Here's what stood out. Seattle Kraken ...

Sweden's Otto Stenberg, right, Rasmus Bergqvist, centre, and Axel Sandin-Pellikka, left, are seen above earlier at the world juniors in Ottawa. Sweden beat Switzerland 7-5 on Sunday to clinch its ...

Czechia will head home from the nation's capital with some new hardware. Eduard Sale scored in the 14th round of the shootout to lead his country past Sweden 3-2 and claim bronze at the world junior ...

Eiserman had the same mindset in his first World Juniors. The 18-year-old was given a variety of roles as the tournament went ...

With Saturday’s upset of Sweden, the Finns have tumbled right into Sunday’s gold-medal game. Undrafted centre Benjamin Rautiainen scored a power-play goal on a sharp-angle shot with just 38 ...

The world juniors will have rematches of thrilling group stage games in the medal round, with USA and Finland going for gold ...

Last year, they defeated Canada 3-2 in the World Juniors quarterfinals in Sweden. Aaron Korolnek and Dave Feschuk also pointed to more significant problems within the Team Canada machinery.

Czechia defeated Sweden 3-2 in a 14-round shootout to win ... The USA has 16 wins and 19 losses at the world juniors vs. Finland. They also tied once. One of those losses was Finland's 4-3 ...

The United States will have a chance to win back-to-back titles for the first time after it defeated Czechia 4-1 in the semifinals of the world junior hockey championship. The Americans got goals ...