Imagine. We could have ourselves a Matthews-Laine gold medal game, folks.

Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock must have been faced with a tough quarterfinals decision in Russia Thursday afternoon: Watch Auston Matthews and Team USA take on Team Czech Republic, or take in Patrick Laine’s Team Finland versus Denmark?

Both games were waged simultaneously. Babcock chose to watch Finland defeat Denmark 5-1, reports Michael Traikos, and advance to a semifinal showdown versus the winner of this afternoon’s Canada-Sweden match.

Laine scored a beautiful goal in the victory, his eighth of the tournament. Watch this release:

Patrik Laine continues his impressive #IIHFWorlds with a goal in the quarters. @leijonat are through to the semis! pic.twitter.com/wavkzKy2xp — IIHF (@IIHFHockey) May 19, 2016

Patrik Laine's release is ridiculous. Here's his 7th goal of the World Championships. pic.twitter.com/Zh5KnphBlO — Marc Dumont (@MarcPDumont) May 19, 2016

Laine giving it the ol' gun in holster after his goal this morning. pic.twitter.com/BuCCDo0aBa — Jeff Paterson (@patersonjeff) May 19, 2016

The presumptive No. 2 draft pick now has 11 points, just two behind Russia’s Vadim Shipachyov for the tournament lead.

Sidney Crosby is the youngest player to ever lead the worlds in scoring. He had 16 points as an 18-year-old in 2006. Rack up a pile of points in his final two games, and Laine has an outside shot at snapping Crosby’s record.

Laine continues to deliver great sound bites. Asked in his post-game scrum if Finland will get Alexsander Barkov (flu) back for the semis, Laine quipped, “I do lots of things, but I’m not a doctor.”

On the other side of the bracket, No. 1–ranked prospect Matthews scored on a sweet drive to the net and a deke to tie the game at one.

When overtime solved nothing, Matthews also scored the only shootout goal, giving the U.S. a 2-1 victory and a date with the winner of Russia-Germany. Matthews now has five goals and eight points in eight games.

Incredible watching these two star prospects live up to the hype on the global stage. And if Finland and the U.S. win their semifinal games, it’ll be Matthews-Laine for gold.

Austin Matthews with the deception to score the only goal in the shootout. @usahockey are moving onto the semis. pic.twitter.com/AoufaA2u0u — IIHF (@IIHFHockey) May 19, 2016