Tyrell, Dana

World Junior Championships - Semifinals
Canada 6 vs. Russia 5 (Shootout)
W Dana Tyrell, CAN: Did not play (injured - out for tournament).
G Dustin Tokarski, CAN: Win, 23 saves on 28 shots

Wow.

Another WJC classic, this time with Canada giving up four one-goal leads, then scrambling back to tie the game with just over five seconds left on a goal by Edmonton prospect Jordan Eberle - his second of the game. After a scoreless 10 minute 4-on-4 overtime, Tokarski stopped two Russian shooters and Eberle got the winner for Canada in the shootout to send Canada on to a 6-5 victory and the Gold Medal Game vs. Sweden.

World Junior Championships
Canada 7 vs. USA 4
W Dana Tyrell, CAN: Did not play (injured - out for tournament).
G Dustin Tokarski, CAN: Win, 22 saves on 26 shots

What a game.

Ward makes his Cape Breton debut ... Another goal for Wright ... plus results from several others.

World Junior Championships
Canada 8 vs. Czech Republic 1
W Dana Tyrell, CAN: Injured
G Dustin Tokarski, CAN: Win, 21 saves on 22 shots

Tokarski got Canada's first start in the tournament and responded with a series of huge saves in the opening period to keep the game scoreless before Canada's onslaught began. After Canada had a snowman on the board, the only question would be if Tokarski got his shutout. He was beaten late to nullify that, but his big-game play came through once again - this time on the international stage in what he called the biggest start of his young career.

TSN One-on-One with Tokarski
TSN Game Highlights

Canada plays Borat's homeland on Sunday. Chet Pickard will likely get the start in that game.

In the blink of an eye, Lightning prospect Dana Tyrell went from being on top of the junior hockey world - finally making Team Canada's WJC squad, being put on a line with expected leader John Tavares, leveling super-prospect Victor Hedman with a vicious check - to looking at knee surgery and months of rehab.

Several Canadian news outlets, including the Sun media, are reporting Tyrell is done for not only the tournament, but the year after tearing an anterior cruciate ligament and a partially tearing his medial collateral ligament. The center/winger will need surgery and was scheduled to return to his hometown of Airdrie, Alta., last night (Sunday).