LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Finland will have a new top line when it faces the United States on Thursday.

Juuso Ikonen, who sat out a 4-3 win Monday against the USA White split squad, will play left wing on the top line with center Aleksi Mustonen and right wing Kasperi Kapanen (Pittsburgh Penguins).

Teemu Turunen was the top-line left wing Monday, the last time Finland played.

Kevin Lankinen, a 2015 NHL Draft prospect, will start in goal for the Finns.

The U.S. will have the same top line, with top 2015 draft prospect Jack Eichel between Tyler Motte (Chicago Blackhawks) and Alex Tuch (Minnesota Wild).

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- United States national junior team coach Mark Osiecki said he's hoping his team plays the same strong, 200-foot game against Finland on Thursday that it featured in a 7-1 defeat of Sweden on Wednesday.

"We have to stick to what we can do, stick to our game plan, so to speak," Osiecki said after a U.S. practice that saw 11 players on the ice. "It's really not putting a lot in there and throwing a lot at them. But if you get away from what we're trying to do Finland will take advantage of it. It'll be a great test."

In goal for that test will be New York Rangers prospect Brandon Halverson. In parts of three games earlier in the camp he allowed four goals on 34 shots, but stopped all eight shots he faced in 30:29 of ice time for the USA Blue split squad against Finland on Sunday.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- United States national junior team coach Mark Osiecki said after the morning skate Wednesday that the decision was made to play goaltender Thatcher Demko for the entire game against Sweden with the hope that he could show why he arrived for this week's junior evaluation camp as the frontrunner to be the No. 1 goaltender for the United States at the 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship.

It was no surprise that Demko's first 60-minute outing turned into his best performance at the camp. Demko, a Vancouver Canucks prospect, stopped 20 of 21 shots in the United States' 7-1 win against Sweden.

"The first three games I played I wasn't happy with it," he said. "I wasn't seeing the puck too well, wasn't playing very well. ... Today I was fortunate enough to play the whole game and I felt like I started to play more like myself. Shook the rust off a little bit and we were fortunate enough to win."

Demko had allowed eight goals on 27 shots while playing parts of three previous games. While the workload was harder Wednesday,

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- It's summer hockey, but Jack Eichel and Alex Tuch already look like they're in midseason form.

Linemates last season with the United States National Team Development Program Under-18 team, Eichel had the primary assist on two of Tuch's three goals in a 7-1 defeat of Sweden on Wednesday.

Eichel, a likely top-two pick at the 2015 NHL Draft, finished with three assists; the other came on Michael Downing's first-period goal.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Sweden will use almost the same lineup it went with Tuesday in its 6-2 win against USA White with the exception of a change in goaltender.

Jonas Johansson, a Buffalo Sabres prospect, will start, with Fredrik Bergvik (San Jose Sharks) serving as the backup.

The U.S. lineup will feature its likely top two centers for the 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship in the middle of the top two lines. Jack Eichel, a top prospect for the 2015 NHL Draft, will center Tyler Motte (Chicago Blackhawks) and Alex Tuch (Minnesota Wild), while 16-year-old Auston Matthews will be between Nick Schmaltz (Blackhawks) and John Hayden (Blackhawks).

Thatcher Demko (Vancouver Canucks) will start and play the whole game in goal for the U.S., with Brandon Halverson (New York Rangers) the backup.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- United States national junior team coach Mark Osiecki will get his first up-close look at his roster Wednesday when the United States plays Sweden.

It's the first game for the U.S. since rosters were trimmed Monday, and Osiecki said he's looking forward to being behind the bench. He watched the split-squad games during the early part of camp from off the ice.

"It's going to be interesting for us, Donny [Granato, assistant coach] and I," Osiecki said. "It'll be our first time on the bench and seeing that."

Mathew Barzal, a potential first-round pick at the 2015 NHL Draft, was among the 22 players picked to play for Canada at the 2014 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup.

The tournament will be played Aug. 11-16 in Breclav, Czech Republic, and Piestany, Slovakia.

Canada has won the tournament the past six years and 18 times in the 23 times it's been held since 1991.

The roster was picked after a four-day selection camp in Calgary.

Barzal, a 5-11, 174-pound center, plays for the Seattle Thunderbirds of the Western Hockey League. He tied for third among first-year WHL players last season with 40 assists and tied for fifth with 54 points.

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- After four days here, Sweden coach Rikard Gronborg is happy with what he's seen.

His team won its games against the two United States split squads and he's also been happy with the attitude he's seen from his players.

"I've been really impressed with the way that not only how they've performed on the ice but the work together," Gronborg told NHL.com. "They're really on it. A lot of questions, doing a lot of video. They watch video on their own lots of times instead of just asking the coaches. That's what coaches really like. They want to get better and make steps. That's what we feel has been very successful for us."

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Miikka Kiprusoff said the offer was too good to refuse. And that's why the former Calgary Flames goaltender has signed on to serve as goaltending coach for Finland's national junior team.

"It's been fun," he told NHL.com. "Head coach [Hannu Jortika] called me a couple months ago and he asked if I was interested to take a job and I was in right away. It was pretty cool to see these young, talented goalies and help them out a little bit."

In 12 NHL seasons with the San Jose Sharks and Flames, Kiprusoff won 319 games, most of any Finnish goaltender in NHL history. He backstopped the Flames to the 2004 Stanley Cup Final, won the 2006 Vezina Trophy and won a bronze medal with Finland at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Czech forward Pavel Zacha, a top prospect for the 2015 NHL Draft, will play with the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League, the team announced Tuesday.

Zacha was the first pick of the 2015 Canadian Hockey League Import Draft in July.

The 6-foot-3, 200-pound center had four goals and four assists in 38 games with Liberec in the top professional league in the Czech Republic as a 16-year-old last season. He also played in five games for the Czech Republic at the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship, and had three goals and two assists to help the Czechs win the silver medal at the 2014 IIHF World Under-18 Championship.