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Canada will play in the men's hockey gold-medal game on Sunday after a 3-2 victory over Finland.

They'll play the winner of the second semifinal, between Slovakia and the United States, later this afternoon.

The game winner came in the dying seconds of a power play, off the stick of Nathan MacKinnon.

Canada climbed back from a 2-0 deficit, thanks to Finland goals from Mikko Rantanen and Erik Haula.

Sam Reinhart tipped in a goal on the power play for Canada, and then defenceman Shea Theodore tied it in the second.

The gold-medal game is set for Sunday at 8:10 a.m. ET. Put a pot of coffee on!

You can’t script it any better than this. Canada's Nathan MacKinnon has scored a go-ahead goal with 35 seconds left on the clock.

The goal was reviewed for offside, but the call on the ice stood.

Canada leads Finland 3-2.

Finland is also assessed a penalty for an unsuccessful challenge.

The crowd here at Blues Canal in Milan went wild for the tying goal. 

None of the bars on this street are on the same feed, so when we heard a huge cheer erupt two doors down, we knew it was about to happen.

Team Norway, led by Magnus Ramsfjell, will face Team Switzerland’s Yannick Schwaller rink for the bronze medal in men's curling.

Key for both teams will be putting the disappointment of losing their respective semifinal games yesterday behind them. Norway fell 5-4 in extra ends to Brad Jacobs of Canada, while the Swiss dropped an 8-5 decision to Great Britain. 

Switzerland was the class of the tournament in earlier round-robin play, posting a 9-0 record that included a 10-4 drubbing of Norway. 

Canada takes on Great Britain for the gold medal on Saturday at 1:05 p.m ET.

Canadian defenceman Shea Theodore has tied the game with a bomb of a shot that sailed through the bodies in front and appeared to go in off Finnish goaltender Juuse Saros’s shoulder.

It's 2-2 here with less than 10 minutes to play. Time for a deep breath!

Canada's Valérie Maltais collects another Olympic bronze for her 3rd medal at Milano Cortina 2026

Valérie Maltais of La Baie, Que, claimed the 1,500-metre speed skating bronze medal on Friday, to go along with her gold medal in team pursuit and 3,000m bronze medal.

Standing on the podium, Maltais briefly looked in slight disbelief. She chuckled a bit and shook her head at one point. 

The 35-year-old from Saguenay, Que., has said this could be her final appearance at the Olympics and wasn't necessarily favoured for the podium in this distance. That's a lesson: never count out Maltais.

Now she's three for three at the Milano-Cortina Games, after claiming bronze in the 3,000 metres and gold with her teammates Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann in the team pursuit. 

Maltais has had a historic Olympic career. In the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, she became just the third athlete in the world (and first Canadian) to win Olympic medals in both short- and long-track speed skating. Maltais started her career in short track and won silver with her team in the women's 3,000-metre relay at Sochi 2014, before switching to long track after the 2018 Winter Games.

The Canadian men's hockey team is fighting for its life — down 2-1 heading into the third period in the semifinal against Finland. 

The Finns were able to capitalize early on their power-play advantages (and disadvantage, with one short-handed goal), taking a 2-0 lead in the second before Canada responded to cut their deficit in half. 

No one can stop Valérie Maltais 🥉

The Canadian speed skater claimed her third medal of Milano-Cortina, a bronze in women's 1,500-metre long-track. 

It wasn't a race Valérie Maltais was favoured to climb to the podium in. But she pulled off a stunning upset — hanging onto third throughout the last five pairs in the heats. 

Canada's medal count now stands at 16.

Heartbreak on the curling sheet 🥌

Canadian skip Rachel Homan and her team will play for bronze in the women's curling after losing 6-3 to Sweden in the semifinals. 

Her team was riding a five-game win streak heading into today's semifinal. Yet Sweden had the best record entering the game at 7-2. 

Homan vows: "We're not done here yet."

Norway, take a bow 👏

The Nordic nation has smashed its own Winter Games record, claiming a 17th gold medal today. 

Johannes Dale-Skjevdal brought that one home for Norway in the men's 15-kilometre mass start at the Antholz-Anterselva Biathlon Arena near the Austrian border.

Norway first set the record for the most gold medals won by a country at a single Winter Games at the 2022 Beijing Olympics. 

The country's 17 golds at these Games come across six sports: biathlon, cross-country skiing, freestyle skiing, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating. 

Five of those gold medals belong to cross-country phenom Johannes Høsflot Klæbo. He has a chance to win a sixth gold tomorrow in the men's 50-kilometre mass start classic.

Big upset for Canadians in women's ski cross 😔

This is the first Winter Games since ski cross debuted at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics that a Canadian woman hasn't been on the podium. 

All three Canadians — Brittany Phelan, Hannah Schmidt and Marielle Thompson — failed to advance to the semifinals this morning, finishing third or last in their respective quarterfinal heats.

Thompson, 33, was the defending silver medallist from the 2022 Beijing Olympics and won gold at Sochi in 2014. Phelan, 34, won silver in PyeongChang in 2018. 

As Thompson said after her race, "ski cross is a fickle beast."

Power couple alert ❤️

The winners in the men's and women's aerials are married to each other. They're China's Wang Xindi and Xu Mengtao.

The energy of the crowd surged inside Milano Santagiulia arena after the goal scored by Sam Reinhart. 

Canada fans vastly outnumber the Finns here, and the area had grown quiet after the two goals scored by Finland. 

Compared to the women's gold medal game yesterday between Canada and the U.S., the energy in the stands hasn't felt as high.

There's been an injection of energy for the crowds gathered in Milan, watching the hockey game on small screens at bars and restaurants in Navigli district. 

Chants of "Let’s go, Canada" started up just moments before Canada scored, followed by a massive cheer. 

Since local bar Blues Canal first became the unofficial Canada House of these games, nearby spots have put up small TV screens on their patios to accommodate the fans who seem unbothered by the size.

Canada has a one-goal deficit to overcome in the final 20 minutes of play.

Finland leads 2-1 after two periods.

There was plenty of pushback from the Canadians in that second period. They were finally rewarded on the power play, where they've been so successful in this tournament.

Sam Reinhart was credited with the goal, after he deflected Cale Makar's shot. Connor McDavid got a secondary assist.

Canada outshot the Finns 14-3 over the second. You can expect the same kind of attack mentality from Canada in the third.

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