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In women's hockey, we're still scoreless halfway through the first period in women's hockey. Canada is outshooting Switzerland 5-0.

I misread some of the D-pairings earlier — don’t worry, I am putting my glasses on now — we do have one small change from the game against Germany. The top pairing remains the same, but Sophie Jaques and Erin Ambrose have swapped places.

Both have great vision and a phenomenal shot from the blue line. This gives the Olympic rookie, Jaques, more minutes and responsibility. It also reunites a great pairing from 2022 in Ambrose and Claire Thompson.

Canada’s Oldham pulled into first place in the women’s big air freestyle final with another strong jump in Round 2.

Urness, who was in fifth place after Round 1, had a rough landing and will need to bounce back in the third and final round, coming up right away.

A few minutes ahead of the hockey game, Canada came out strong in the first round of the women’s freeski big air final. 

Oldham is in second place, scoring 91.75, and Naomi Urness is in fifth after the first of three runs.  

Mathilde Gremaud — the Swiss freestyle skier who won the slopestyle — and her Swiss teammate Anouk Andraska had to drop out of the competition because of training accidents, leaving only 10 competitors. 

Ahead of today’s semifinal between Canada and Switzerland, here are a couple of Swiss players to watch:

Alina Müller, forward: Müller was a teenager when she won Olympic bronze in 2014. Now, she’s the most important player on this Swiss team. She leads the team with four points in five games, including the game winner over Finland in the quarterfinals. She plays for the Boston Fleet in the PWHL.

Lara Stalder, forward: Team captain Stalder is another holdover from the 2014 bronze-medal team. The Swiss rely on Stalder both on the ice and off.

Andrea Brändli, goaltender: Brändli shut out Finland in the quarterfinals. She’s having a great season in the Swedish Women’s Hockey League and is one of the best goaltenders not playing in the PWHL.

We’ve got some lines in ahead of the 3:10 p.m. ET puck drop against Switzerland. Canada’s rolling out the same combinations as they used against Germany last week.

Here are the full lines:

Forward:

Defence:

Goaltender:

Over in Livigno, the weather has cleared for the women’s freeski big air final and competition is underway. Canada’s Naomi Urness will start sixth and Megan Oldham, who finished first in qualifiers, will go last out of 12 skiers.

The event had been delayed by more than an hour due to heavy wind and snow. 

In a performance that had all Canadians holding their breath, Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps put their Olympic dream back on track with a good performance in their free skate. 

After a tough outing in the short program and a bad fall by Stellato-Dudek in today’s warm-up the pair fought for every element. Their skate wasn’t perfect; they stumbled on side-by-side triple toeloops and downgraded their planned side-by-side triple Salchow to a double.

They won’t win a medal today but they will win the hearts of fans who have followed their remarkable story. Remember, Stellato-Dudek is 42 years old and suffered a head injury in practice a few weeks ago that almost derailed their Olympics.

They now have a total score of 192.61. There are 13 competitors yet to skate. 

I'm Briar Stewart in Milan at the figure skating rink. In their warm-up skate, Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps practised a throw and she fell on the ice and slid backwards into the padded boards. She got up and continued to practice her jumps.

According to our colleagues, the fall happened on a throw triple Salchow, which is a major element of their program.

The pairs free skate final is about to get underway at the Milano Ice Skating Arena with the Canadian team of Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps competing third.

Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps are in 14th place after a fall in yesterday's short program. It's been a tumultuous few weeks for the pair, who were close to withdrawing from the Olympics altogether because of a head injury the 42-year-old Stellato-Dudek sustained in training.

Canada's top team of Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud are coming off a spectacular short program that has them sitting in podium-friendly third place. The reigning Canadian champions were considered a longshot for a medal coming into the Games. However, if they can pull off a performance similar to Sunday’s, they could turn out to be the big surprise of the night. They skate 14th out of the 16 finalists.

World number one German pair of Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin have almost a five-point lead on second-place Anastasiia Metelkina and Luka Berulava of Georgia.

The athletes are at the top of the hill, ready to drop. But the women's freeski big air final is still delayed due to blizzard-like conditions.

Officials are now saying the competition won't start before 3 p.m. ET.

Workers are blowing snow off the run-in to the jump as we await further updates about the competition.

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