Four Nations Championship Preview: Team USA vs. Team Canada with Line Combinations 2/20/2025

Team USA (2-0-0-1, 6 pts) vs. Team Canada (1-1-0-1, 5 pts)

Venue: Bell Centre
Date: Thursday, February 20
Time: 8:00 pm EST
TV: ESPN

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:

Team USA: -1.5 ML -112
Team Canada +1.5 ML -108
O/U 5.5

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Team USA News & Notes:

USA went 2-0-0-1 in the round robin dropping the final game 2-1 to Sweden. The US was resting players due to injury. With the players resting it opened a spot for Chris Kreider who scored the lone goal in his first game of the tournament. Jake Oettinger made his first start of the tournament stopping 21 of the 23 shots he faced.

Team Canada News & Notes:

Canada finished the round robin 1-1-0-1 winning the final game 5-3 over Finland to clinch their spot in the Championship game. They got goals from Brayden Point, Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby, and two from Nathan MacKinnon. Jordan Binnington got the start, he started all three games in the round-robin. Binnington stopped 23 of the 26 shots he faced.

Team USA Projected Lines

B.Tkachuk-Eichel-M.Tkachuk
Guentzel-Matthews-J.Hughes
Miller-Larkin-Boldy
Nelson-Trocheck-Connor

Slavin-Faber
Werenski-Sanderson
Hanifin-Fox

Hellebuyck
Oettinger

Power-Play

M.Tkachuk-Guentzel-Matthews
Eichel-Werenski

B.Tkachuk-Boldy-Connor
J.Hughes-Fox

Team Canada Projected Lines

Point-McDavid-Stone
Crosby-MacKinnon-Reinhart
Hagel-Cirelli-Marner
Marchand-Bennett-Konecny

Toews-Makar
Morrissey-Parayko
Sanheim-Doughty

Binnington
Hill

Power-Play

Crosby-MacKinnon-Reinhart
Makar-McDavid

Stone-Point-Marner
Konecny-Morrissey

Players To Watch:

Team USA

Jack Eichel has yet to score a goal yet in the Four Nations Face-Off. He does enter the Championship with four assists and had been centering the line of both Tkachuk brothers. Eichel is a plus-two, has a 20:30 TOI, and a 56.0 face-off percentage. This season for Vegas in 55 games he has 69 points on 19 goals and 50 assists.

Team Canada

Nathan MacKinnon enters the Championship game with three goals in the tournament. He is a plus-four and has one power-play goal. He has a 17:58 TOI and a 56.3 faceoff percentage. This season for Colorado he has 87 points in 57 games on 21 goals and 66 assists.

Injury Report:

Team USA

F Chris Kreider – Scratch
D Charlie McAvoy – Out
G Jeremy Swayman – Scratch

Team Canada

F Travis Konecny – Scratch
D Shea Theodore – Week-To-Week
G Sam Montembeault – Scratch

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