2010 World Junior A Challenge The 2010 World Junior A Challenge was an international Junior " A " ice hockey tournament hosted by Hockey Canada . The 2010 World Junior A Challenge was hosted by the Canadian City of Penticton , British Columbia from November 8 to November 14 , 2010 at the South Okanagan Events Centre . Teams . The two host Canadian teams will return , along with Russia , Sweden , and United States . Replacing Belarus at this event will be Switzerland attending for the first time in the tournament ' s five year history . Summary . Exhibition . In early exhibition action , Canada East avenged years of frustration against their nemesis Canada West with a 7 - 2 victory . The next day , the victory did not translate into anything for Canada East as they fell apart late against Russia in a 7 - 4 loss . Canada West finished off the exhibition series winless , dropping their next - day game 5 - 3 to the 2 - time defending champion United States . Round Robin . Like many years , the round robin was as unpredictable as ever . Upstart Switzerland went perfect in the round robin , defeating Canada West 5 - 4 in overtime and cruising to a 5 - 1 win over Russia . The United States was also perfect , crushing Canada East 6 - 1 and Sweden 5 - 1 . Canada West was not far behind Switzerland in the Pool B standings , following up their overtime loss with a 4 - 2 victory over Russia . Canada East got over their Pool A crushing to the United States by beating Sweden 6 - 2 . Both Sweden and Russia went winless in the round robin to round out the two pools . Quarter - final . The quarter - finals were hope for some , while heartbreak for others . Despite badly outshooting their opponents in both games , Russia and Sweden were both relegated to the 5th Place Match on Friday . Canada East defeated Russia 4 - 3 , while Canada West defeated Sweden 3 - 2 . While both Canada teams now move on to the semi - finals , Russia and Sweden will battle for pride and 5th place . 5th Place and Semi - final . In the 5th Place Game , Sweden , who had never won a game at the 2009 or 2010 WJAC to date was facing the 2009 Bronze Medallist Russia . Sweden took control early and took a 4 - 1 lead into the third period , where they held off a late Russian surge to win the game 5 - 4 . In Semi - final # 1 , undefeated Switzerland was up against Canada East . The game started of ugly , when Switzerland scored on their own net on a delayed penalty to give Canada East a 1 - 0 lead . Canada East was neck - to - neck with Switzerland , but took a 3 - 1 lead into the third . Switzerland turned on their jets and outshot Canada East 18 - 4 in the third , but Canada East still came out with the 4 - 2 victory . Switzerland moved on to the Bronze Medal Game , while Canada East goes to their first Gold Medal Game since the 2007 World Junior A Challenge . In Semi - final # 2 , the undefeated United States played Canada West . For the past two years , these two teams have faced each other in the Gold Medal Game , but this time a berth to the finals is on the line . The USA dominated early and often , winning 5 - 1 and out shooting Canada West 36 - 28 . The victory puts the United States in line for a potential record third straight Gold Medal at the event , while with the loss Canada West is in line for its worst placing at the event since its inception . Bronze and Gold . In the Bronze Medal Game , Switzerland came out with their guns blazing and crushed Canada West 8 - 3 to win a medal in their first ever World Junior A Challenge . Badly outshooting Canada West 44 - 16 , Switzerland has deprived Canada West of a medal for the first time since the tournament began in 2006 . Win or lose , Canada East ' s fortunes rested on the play of goaltender Jordan Ruby . Ruby ' s goaltending was phenomenal in the quarter - and semi - final of the tournament stopping 74 of 79 shots . The two - time defending United States had steamrolled all competition in their three tournament games , outscoring their opponents 16 - 3 . From the start of the game it became clear that most of the game was going to end up in the Canada East zone . Winning 2 - 1 after the first period despite being outshot 14 - 10 , things were looking up for Canada East . Canada East chased USA ' s Zane Gothberg from the net with two quick goals to build a 4 - 1 lead , but this seemed not to demoralize the Americans but fire them up . From that point on Jordan Ruby would face roughly 28 shots in the next 33 minutes of play . The play rarely left the Canadian ' s zone and eventually the Americans climbed back into the game . The Canadians could not must much offence in this time frame , only managing 10 more shots in the final 35 minutes of play . Austin Czarnik would tie the game 4 - 4 with 4 : 33 to go and with 3 : 53 to go Jimmy Mullin scored the winner . The US would score an empty net goal with a minute to go to finish the game and clinch their third straight championship . Statistics . Goaltenders . " Please note : 60 mins minimum . " Awards . All - Star Team Rosters . Canada East . Players : Justin Gilbert , Jordan Ruby , Luke Juha , Tyler McCarthy , Matt Chiarantano , Brennan Serville , Tyson Wilson , Alexandre Tardif , Phil Hampton , Scott Wilson , Tyson Spink , Zach Hyman , Tylor Spink , Evan Rodrigues , Matthew Peca , Jesse Beamish , Mitch Zion , Maxime Dumond , Nick Huard , Kyle Baun , Robert Polesello , Jason Lacroix . Staff : Curtis Hodgins , Patrice Bosch , Todd Gill , Danielle Korol , Harley Palmer , Paul Gagne , Troy Ryan . Canada West . Players : Jameson Shortreed , Matthew Krahn , Nolan Kaiser , Sam Jardine , Craig Bokenfohr , Ben Gallacher , Rhett Holland , Joey Laleggia , Sean Flanagan , Travis St . Denis , Reed Linaker , John Lidgett , Madison Dias , Clarke Breitkreuz , Grayson Downing , Dylan Walchuk , Drew George , Ryan Marshall , Sam Mellor , Brendan O ' Donnell , Mitch Van Teeling , Mark MacMillan . Staff : Andrew Milne , Barry Wolff , Jomar Cruz , Larry Wintoneak , Chad Oliver , Rylan Ferster . Russia . Players : Denis Perevozchikov , Oleg Dyatlov , Gennady Sabinin , Alexey Vasilevskiy , Vitaly Demakov , Konstantin Vorshev , Nikita Nesterov , Anton Saveliev , Albert Yarullin , Evgeny Palenga , Dmitry Mikhailov , Roman Konkov , Anton Ivanyuzhenkov , Sergey Abramov , Alexey Shamin , Nikita Kucherov , Maxim Shalunov , Sergey Smurov , Mikhail Grigorenko , Alexander Petrov , Vladimir Tkachev , Alexey Shubin . Staff : Yuri Rumyantsev , Stanislav Shadrin , Vladimir Nikulin , Sergey Raspopov , Yan Vorobiev , Boris Sapronenkov , Oleg Norchenko . Sweden . Players : Mattius Backman , Rasmus Edstrom , Mattias Granlund , Filip Gunnarsson , Jonas Gunnarsson , Tim Harrysson , Linus Hultstrom , Alexanderq Lagerstrom , Eddie Larsson , Daniel Mannberg , Pontus Netterberg , Joakim Nordstrom , Christian Nyman , Jesper Olofsson , Sebastian Ottosson , Oscar Persson , Viktor Ronnback , Linus Rotbakken , Joakim Ryan , Marcus Sorenson , Erik Thorell , Pathrik Vesterholm . Staff : Lars Lindgren , Patrik Sundstrom , Christer Hoglund , Krister Holm , Nicklas Lindvall , Jan Johansson , Par Thures . Switzerland . Players : Luca Camperchioli , Samuel Erni , Samuel Guerra , Gaetan Haas , Yannick Herren , Manuel Holenstein , Gregory Hofmann , Dean Kukan , Raphael Kuonen , Romain Loeffel , Ryan McGregor , Lukas Meili , Benjamin Neukom , Inti Pestoni , Joel Reymondin , Matthias Rossi , Reto Schappi , Tristan Scherwey , Nicholas Steiner , Remo Trub , Joel Vermin , Patrick Zubler . Staff : Richard Jost , Alex Reinhard , Sergio Soguel , Bruni Suri , Jorg Rutishauser , Johannes Keel , Thomas Ritter . United States . Players : Casey DeSmith , Zane Gothberg , Brian Cooper , Tommy Fallen , Aaron Harstad , Nick Mattson , Scott Mayfield , Jordan Schmaltz , Sam Windle , Garrett Allen , Seth Ambroz , Austin Czarnik , Ryan Dzingel , Robert Francis , Max Gaede , Caleb Herbert , Cason Hohmann , Max McCormick , Jimmy Mullin , Michael Parks , Colten St . Clair , Sam Warning . Staff : P . K . O ' Handley , Luke Strand , Justin Lyle , Darren Flinchem , Todd Klein , Marc Boxer , Alan Ashare .