Those are all good questions, and as I tend to do for almost every World Junior tournament, I had predicted this team would win gold and thought it had a roster that could roll over opponents like we’re accustomed to. But that was wrong, and that’s on me for misevaluating the team.

The fingers are wagging every which way after Canada’s 4-3 loss to Czechia in the world junior hockey championship in Ottawa on Thursday, a second debilitating quarterfinal elimination in as many years for the perennial contenders and frequent favourites.

Canada was eliminated by Czechia in the quarterfinals of the world junior hockey championship for the second straight year. The country failed to finish in the top-4 at the event in consecutive years for the first time since the early 1980s.

Team USA's top line finally had the explosive game they've been waiting for, while Czechia held on to send Canada packing.

Boston College teammates James Hagens and Ryan Leonard each scored twice, and the defending champion United States routed Switzerland, 7-2, on Thursday in the world junior h. Boston University’s Brandon Svoboda,