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Team Canada takes on Team Russia in World Cup of Hockey semifinal action on Hockey Night In Canada (CBC, 7 p.m. EST).

This game — like any best-on-best hockey competition — is a game Canada should win, but they’re going up against a goaltender that looks capable of stealing a game in Russia’s Sergei Bobrovsky, who has stopped 91 of 96 (.948) shots faced over three games in this tournament.

Team Canada has outscored its opponents by a combined score of 14-3 and believes there is another level to be reached now that they’re into the semifinal knockout stage. It doesn’t feel possible, but we’d all like to see it.


Team Canada Projected Lineup

Left WingCenterRight Wing
Brad MarchandSidney CrosbyPatrice Bergeron
John TavaresRyan GetzlafSteven Stamkos
Logan CoutureJonathan ToewsCorey Perry
Joe ThorntonRyan O'ReillyMatt Duchene
Left DefenceRight Defence
Alex PietrangeloBrent Burns
Marc-Edward VlasicShea Weber
Jay BoumeesterDrew Doughty
Goaltender
Carey Price

Team Russia Projected Lines

Left WingCenterRight Wing
Alex OvechkinEvgeny KuznetsovVladimir Tarasenko
Artemi PanarinEvgeni MalkinNikolai Kulemin
Ivan Telegin Vadim ShipachyovEvgenii Dadonov
Vladislav NamestnikovArtem AnisimovNikita Kucherov
Left DefenseRight Defense
Dmitry OrlovNikita Zaitsev
Andrei MarkovAlexei Emelin
Dmitry KulikovAlexey Marchenko
Goaltenders
Sergei Bobrovsky
Semyon Varlamov