The Americans' preliminary round victories came against the three lowest-ranked teams in their group: Hungary, France and Belarus. The roads to the semifinal have been very different for Canada and the United States at the world hockey championship. The Canadians bulldozed their way through most of the preliminary round, posting a 6-0-0-1 record to finish second in Group B. The unbeaten Finns are two wins away from becoming the first country to win the world hockey championship, world juniors and under-18 world title in the same year. "We told ourselves that if we played [them] later on in the tournament, they're going to be a different team because they're young ... but they're talented.

Source: CBC News May 20, 2016 18:07 UTC