U.S. goalie Kaidan Mbereko (30) skates away as Czechia celebrates a goal during the second period in a quarterfinal in the IIHF junior world hockey championships Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, in Edmonton, Alberta. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

The IIHF World Junior Championships semifinals are set, with Canada vs. Czechia and Finland vs. Sweden at Rogers Place in Edmonton on Friday, August 19 (8/19/2022).

Both semifinal games on Friday will be broadcast on NHL Network, and can be streamed live on DirecTV Stream, fuboTV and other live TV services.

The Czech Republic stunned Team USA in the quarterfinal, winning 4-2 to advance. Instead of a classic USA-Canada hockey rivalry, we’ll get Canada vs. Czechia, after the Canadian U-20 team ousted Switzerland 6-3.

Finland beat Germany 5-2 to advance, and they’ll play Sweden in the semifinals. The Swedish team eked out a 2-1 win over Latvia.

The World Junior Championships or “World Juniors” feature the top players under 20 years old from around the world. The 2022 Tournament is being hosted in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Here’s the semifinal schedule. All times ET on Friday, August 19:

All games will be broadcast on NHL Network. Cord cutters can stream the games live via free trials of DirecTV Stream, fuboTV, Sling and YouTube TV.

Cable subscribers with the NHL Network channel can stream the games live for free on NHL.com.

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EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Petr Hauser and Matyas Sapovaliv scored in a 3:11 span of the second period and the Czech Republic upset the United States 4-2 on Wednesday night in the world junior hockey quarterfinals.

The defending champion United States dropped out after going 4-0 and never trailing in round-robin play.

“These games are tough and we struggled to get into our game today,” U.S. coach Nate Leaman said. “Our first 10 minutes were good, but we struggled to manage the puck. We played a good Czechia team, they played hard and blocked a lot of shots, and you have to tip your hat to them.”

Tomas Suchanek made 28 saves to help the Czech Republic set up a semifinal against Canada on Saturday night. Earlier, Canada beat Switzerland 6-3, Sweden held off Latvia 2-1, and Finland beat Germany 5-2.

Hauser gave the Czech Republic the lead at 7:34 of the second with a wrist shot to the top corner, and Sapovaliv followed at 10:45 off a rebound.

With the U.S. on a five-minute power play for Stanislav Svozil’s kneeing major, Carter Mazur pulled the Americans within a goal with 8:29 left. Jiri Kulich put it away with an empty-netter with 1:32 to go.

Logan Cooley opened the scoring for the Americans with 7:57 left in first. Jan Mysak tied it with 2:05 left in the period.

Kaidan Mbereko made 20 saves for the United States.

Canada won after sweeping its preliminary group, with Logan Stankoven scoring twice and adding an assist. Tyson Foerster had a goal and two assists, Jack Thompson, Nathan Gaucher and Will Cuylle also scored and Dylan Garand made 23 saves.

Attilio Biasca scored twice and Simon Knak added a goal for Switzerland.

Emil Andrae broke a tie for Sweden midway through the third.

Isak Rosen opened the scoring for Sweden on a power play in the first period. Gustavs Ozolins tied it late in second. Jesper Wallstedt made 12 saves for Sweden.

Roby Jarventie had two goals and two assists for Finland. Kasper Simontaival and Joel Maatta each had a goal and an assist, with Finland scoring four times on the power play.

Roni Hirvonen also scored and Leevi Merilainen made 19 saves. Bennet Rossmy had two power-play goals for Germany.

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