Canada off to semifinals at Worlds, Scheifele adds two assists

Mark Scheifele assisted on two goals including the game winner by Macklin Celebrini as Canada beat USA 4-0 to advance to the semifinals of the 2026 World Hockey Championships.

Canada will face Finland in the semifinals on Saturday.

It didn’t take Canada long to open the scoring as Scheifele found Celebrini at the American blueline, Celebrini walked in and beat Devin Cooley high on the power play at 1:29.

Canada added to that lead halfway through the second period, Scheifele spotted Dylan Holloway open in the neutral zone, Holloway skated into the American zone and had his first shot attempt blocked but followed up and scored on Cooley for a two-goal lead.

Jet Greaves put on a show in the third period with several highlight reel saves including two on Matt Coronato. Canada got two empty net goals from Connor Brown and Sidney Crosby for the 4-0 win.

Scheifele, Gabe Vilardi and Dylan DeMelo will face Jet teammate Ville Heinola and Finland at 1 CT on Saturday. Nino Niederreiter and Switzerland get Norway in the other semifinal, you can watch that at 8:20 CT.