Griffin Reinhart had a goal and an assist to lead Canada to a 4-1 win against Switzerland on Thursday and a spot in the semifinals of the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship.
Anthony Mantha, Curtis Lazar and Derrick Pouliot also scored for Canada, and Zachary Fucale stopped 19 of 20 shots to backstop the effort.
Canada will play Finland in one semifinal on Saturday. Finland beat the Czech Republic 5-3 in another quarterfinal Thursday.
Nico Dunner scored for Switzerland, and goaltender Melvin Nyffeler made 19 saves.
Canada led 2-0 in the final seconds of the second period when Switzerland scored with one second left. Dunner beat Frederik Gauthier on a faceoff in the Canada end with five seconds remaining. Switzerland's Kevin Fiala got the puck and fired a shot that Fucale stopped. Fiala got the rebound and sent it to Mirco Muller at the right point. He fired a shot that Dunner re-directed down between Fucale's pads. A replay review upheld the call.
Any Swiss momentum, however, ended 4:13 into the third when Lazar, the Ottawa Senators prospect, scored.
The teams were skating 4-on-4 when Reinhart created a turnover at the Canada blue line. He broke in alone on the Swiss goal, but Nyffeler stopped his shot from in close. Lazar, following the play, poked at the rebound, then pulled it away from Nyffler, carried it behind the Switzerland net and came around the other side for a wraparound goal.
Pouliot closed the scoring when he picked up a loose puck at center ice, skated into the Swiss zone, backed down a Switzerland defender and fired a shot over the Nyffler's blocker at 13:49 to make it 4-1.
Reinhart, the New York Islanders prospect who sat out the first three games while serving a suspension assessed for an incident in the semifinals of the 2013 WJC, opened the scoring with 1:52 remaining the first period. Bo Horvat won a faceoff in the Swiss end and Scott Laughton grabbed the puck and bounced a shot on net. Nyffeler made the save, but Reinhart scored on the rebound from in close.
Mantha made it 2-0 when he scored on a penalty shot for his fifth in five tournament games. Jonathan Drouin took advantage of a Switzerland line change and sprung Mantha on a breakaway. Switzerland's Samuel Kreis rushed back and pulled down Mantha, who was awarded a penalty shot.
On the attempt, Mantha skated in hard with the puck on his forehand, deked, pulled the puck to his backhand and slid it past Nyffeler at 9:04 of the period.
It was the fifth successful penalty-shot goal for Canada, and the first since Jonathan Toews at the 2007 WJC.
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