David Bolland, Kyle Chipchura and Luc Bourdon scored in a 1:51 span in the second period to lead Canada to a 4-0 victory over Norway on Thursday night in the world junior hockey championship.
Cam Barker also scored, and Justin Pogge made 13 saves to help the Canadians (3-0) clinch at least second place in Group A in the game slowed by 45 penalties.
Canada will complete round-robin play tonight against the US (2-0). The Americans, 6-5 winners over Finland on Wednesday night, will face Switzerland on Friday night in Vancouver.
The winner of each of the two pools will receive byes into the semifinals, while the two second-place teams will play the third-place teams in the other group in the quarterfinals on Monday.
Norway is 0-3.
In the only other game Thursday night, Nikolai Lemtyugov scored two goals in Russia's 3-1 victory over Latvia in Group B play in Kamloops.
Evgeni Malkin also scored for Russia (3-0) and Semen Varlamov made 19 saves. Jurijs Klujevskis scored for Latvia (0-3).
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