USA vs. Finland results: Arthur Kaliyev's late goal lifts Americans to showdown with Canada for gold medal Canada vs. Russia results: Alex Newhook, Devon Levi have Canada going for gold What TV channel is Canada vs. USA on today? Schedule, time for 2021 World Juniors gold-medal game The road to gold, to back-to-back gold, continued Monday for Canada at the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship. A familiar foe — historically and in recent memory — stood across the ice, and the result was similar, too. Last year, Canada came back to beat Russia in the gold-medal game. In this year's rematch, the Canadians were dominant from puck drop in a 5-0 semifinal win. They will play for more gold on Tuesday. Team Canada started swiftly in this one. Alex Newhook — who left the team's last preliminary game early and missed the quarterfinals with an upper-body injury — came out like a gangbuster and scored 59 seconds in. One problem: It took a little time for the officials to figure out he had scored, but once they did, Canada had an early 1-0 lead. "It was great to get off to a great start there, our whole team came out flying," said Newhook, who no idea the puck went in until he saw it on video. "To get one on the first shift, I think it's always great to get one then and get some energy right off the bat for the guys. I think we carried that through the whole game, so, great effort." The Canadians didn't stop there. They controlled puck possession, tore apart 2020 first-rounder Yaroslav Askarov (who had trouble holding on to his stick for much of the first period) and didn't let the Russians get much offensive zone pressure. By the end of the opening frame, it was 3-0 for the hosts. Canada's Connor McMichael was asked Sunday if his empty-net goal against the Czech Republic might be the thing he needed to change his puck luck. "I hope so. I'm not too worried. I'm getting chances, that's the main thing. They'll eventually start going in. Hopefully, that starts . . . tomorrow," he replied. Well, by the end of the first period a prophetic McMichael had another goal, this time off a great feed from Jakob Pelletier, who was elevated to the top line thanks to his tenacious tournament play. Cole Perfetti added a power-play goal, the team's first since it scored three against Switzerland on Dec. 29 (the Canadians entered the game 0 for 6 in the last two contests). Braden Schneider and Dylan Cozens added goals in the second and third periods, respectively. For now, Cozens has retaken the tournament points lead at 16 with his goal and two assists. (The United States' Trevor Zegras is at 15. He's playing in Monday's late semifinal vs. Finland.). He had a chance for another goal but was stopped by Askarov's toe on a penalty shot. Cozens also is tied with Ryan Ellis for fifth on Canada's all-time WJC points list with 25. By the way, Ellis, now a Predators defenseman, played in three World Juniors. While the goals were nice, the biggest story out of this game was, once again, the performance of netminder Devon Levi. Showcasing his calmness, pinpoint positioning and expert puck tracking, he turned aside all 28 Russian shots for his third shutout of the tournament; he's the second Canadian goalie to do that, joining Justin Pogge, who did it in 2006. While it's nice to tie the record, Levi is focused on winning. "I'm not playing for a shutout record. I'm playing for a gold medal," said Levi, who copped to trying for an empty-net goal in the waning seconds of the game. "I'm looking for tomorrow and it's something maybe to look at after the tournament, but the job's not done yet." Levi has allowed just three goals since Boxing Day — all on the power play — and has a 0.53 goals-against average, besting (so far) the likes of Pogge (1.00) and some guys named Carey Price (1.14) and Steve Mason (1.19). Not bad for a guy who wasn't even invited to summer camp. "I don't know what to say, I look like I repeat myself every day," head coach Andre Tourigny said when asked about his netminder. "He's really assertive, he's really quick, he's aggressive, he's focused. He's radiating confidence for us. He is so assertive. We're glad to have him on our side." Monday's contest was the 28th meeting at the World Juniors between Canada and Russia in the last 28 years, since the Soviet Union dissolved. Canada now holds a 15-12-1 edge in those games. Its overall advantage is 21-19-2 when taking into account the Soviet Union years. The last time any country won back-to-back golds was, yep, these Canadians, who did just that from 2005-09. Last year's gold was the country's 18th title. And everyone will be tuned in on Tuesday night when they square off against the Americans at 9:30 p.m. ET (TSN/NHL Network). "For me, the best feeling is being able to represent my country and being able to go out and play the game that I love," said Levi. "To be able to hopefully make some Canadians proud. We're playing for the whole country and, and that's what really drives me." "It's definitely special," added Newhook. "It's not really that, you know, pressure's so much on us where we have Canadians watching us. I think we have all Canadians behind us and it's cool to feel that and to bring that into this tournament and bring it into a championship game tomorrow." Sporting News had all the action as Canada clinched a spot in the gold-medal game and a shot at back-to-back golds. Since 1977, Canada has only lost the final game in nine of 27 championships.