Canada was ousted from the world junior hockey championship at the quarterfinal stage with Thursday's last-minute 4-3 loss to the Czech Republic. That shambolic result followed another disastrous exit at the same stage to the same opponent at the same tournament 12 months ago.

OTTAWA — On Friday afternoon, Scott Salmond, Peter Anholt and Al Murray, the three men chiefly in charge of Hockey Canada’s 2025 World Junior team, stood shoulder to shoulder inside Ottawa’s Delta Hotel and fielded 22 minutes of questions from reporters.

Canadian fans are frustrated after seeing their team lose out in the quarter final at the World Juniors for a second straight year.

Hockey Canada executive Scott Salmond says “the buck stops” with him. The country’s men’s under-20 team was eliminated from the world junior hockey championship in the quarterfinals for a second-straight year Thursday.

The senior vice-president of hockey operations for Hockey Canada is taking responsibility for the country’s second straight quarterfinal loss to Czechia at the world junior championship.