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Just a single for Canada in the eighth end.

They've had too many misses — and they're running out of rocks.

It's 5-3 Sweden heading to the ninth end, and they have the hammer.

It's now 5-2 for Sweden. 

Pressure is rising for the Canadians. They need to find a way to generate a multi-point end right now with the hammer in the eighth end.

Elliotte Friedman: Hockey Canada and Sidney Crosby tried 'everything humanly possible' to play today

Elliotte Friedman reports that Hockey Canada tried to find or make a knee brace, to allow Sidney Crosby to play in Canada's semifinal game against Finland. Friedman reports that Crosby will miss the semifinal match, and Connor McDavid will wear the captain's C for Canada.

That included searching for and putting together a custom brace for Crosby, Friedman says.

Ultimately, Crosby wasn’t able to play, after suffering a lower-body injury in Wednesday's quarterfinal win over Czechia.

Hi, I'm Kris Reyes, reporting from Milan, Italy.

A bar in the Navigli district of Milan has become the ultimate gathering spot for Canadians in Milan looking to take in Olympic events outside the arenas.  

The owners of Blues Canal — a local bar with live music — have never even been to Canada. 

But Canadian Jeremy Cummins, who's attending the Olympics, wanted a place to watch some of the hockey games with other Canadians.  

Clearly, other Canadians felt the same way. 

What started as a small WhatsApp group swelled to 900.  

And on days when Team Canada is playing, the bar has been wall to wall with Canadians decked out in head-to-toe Canadian gear.  

As Canada readies to play Finland in the men's hockey semifinals, jerseys galore fill the bar. 

Cummins said he had no idea what he started would catch fire, but he's happy it did. 

There's no official Canada House at these games, making Blues Canal the go-to space in Milan for Canadians to cheer on their home team.

With no Sidney Crosby, head coach Jon Cooper has shuffled his lines for the semifinal game against Finland.

Seth Jarvis and Bo Horvat move up. Nick Suzuki takes Crosby's spot at third-line centre.

Sam Bennett draws back in after missing the Czechia game. He's slotted in at fourth-line centre, bumping Sam Reinhart to the extra forward.

On defence, Josh Morrissey will miss another game.

Here are the full lines:

Forward:

Defence:

Goaltender: 

Sweden scored the first two in the game. They measured for three but ended up with just two.

That makes it 4-2 for Sweden as they head to the seventh end.

Canada has the hammer.

U.S. Skier Lindsey Vonn says she had a fifth surgery to repair her broken leg 10 days after a brutal crash in the women's downhill ended her Olympic comeback. 

"My last surgery went well," the 41-year-old wrote on X Friday. 

"It took a little over 6 hours. I have been recovering from the surgery but pain has been hard to manage."

She previously underwent four surgeries on the complex tibia fracture in her left leg at a hospital in Treviso, Italy, before returning last Sunday to the U.S., where she had her most recent surgery. 

"Haven't stood on my feet in over a week … been in a hospital bed immobile since my race," Vonn previously wrote in an update on Monday.

Vonn, who is one of the most decorated alpine skiers of all time, fell hard within the first 13 seconds of the women's Olympic downhill at Cortina d'Ampezzo on Feb. 8 and had to be airlifted off course.

She has promised to provide more details about her injury and recovery soon.

Norway has set a new record for the most gold medals won by a country at a single Winter Olympic Games — securing its 17th gold medal in the men's biathlon 15-kilometre mass start today. 

The country had set a record of 16 at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. 

Johannes Dale-Skjevdal led a Norwegian one-two finish ahead of Sturla Holm Laegreid, with France's Quentin Fillon Maillet taking bronze. 

Laegreid became the first man to medal in all five men's biathlon events at a single Games — individual (bronze), sprint (bronze), pursuit (silver), mass start (silver) and relay (silver). The mass start was only added to the Olympic program in 2006, while the pursuit debuted in 2002.

Norway's 17 gold medals have come across six sports: three in biathlon, six in cross-country skiing, two in freestyle skiing, three in Nordic combined, two in ski jumping and one in speed skating.

And the tally may not be finished. Norway remains a strong contender in the men's and women's 50-kilometre cross-country mass starts, the women's 12.5-kilometre biathlon mass start and the men's speed-skating mass start in the final days of these Games.

Norway's Johannes Høsflot Klæbo could claim his sixth Milano-Cortina gold in the 50-kilometre cross-country mass start, which would break the Winter Games record he tied earlier in the week. 

Ask any curler and they will tell you the semifinal game at the Olympics is the highest stress game you'll ever play.

And you can't help but think nerves are playing a factor in the first half of this game — there have been a lot of half shots.

Canada will need to play better in the second half.

The Canadians will be playing without their captain, Sidney Crosby, in today's semifinal game against Finland, according to Hockey Canada.

The winner of today's game, which begins at 10:40 a.m. ET, moves on to the gold-medal game on Sunday.

Crosby left the quarterfinal win over Czechia with a lower-body injury. He went down the tunnel walking gingerly, and he was scheduled to have an MRI after the game.

Yesterday, head coach Jon Cooper said nobody is replacing Crosby.

"He's one of one," Cooper said.

But he pointed to his team's depth.

"That’s why you have to pick the players when you're putting this team together — that in case somebody like Sid goes down, who can step in," he said. "We feel like we have that."

Connor McDavid will wear the captain's C with Crosby out.

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