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MacKinnon's late goal sends Canada to Olympic gold medal game
How Nathan MacKinnon's winning goal in the final minute sent Canada to the gold medal game. (0:41)
MILAN — Falling behind for a second consecutive game at the Olympics, after never trailing throughout group play, Canada dug itself an even deeper hole in the semifinals against Finland.
Down two goals against an opponent also full of NHL players, the tournament favorite did not look the slightest bit shook.
"There wasn't really any panic," center Nick Suzuki said. "We were going to get our chances eventually."
Then, the most talented roster in Milan buried those chances. Sam Reinhart deflected Cale Makar's shot in to start the comeback, Shea Theodore tied it on a blast through traffic and Nathan MacKinnon scored the go-ahead goal with 35.2 seconds left to advance to the gold medal game with a 3-2 victory Friday night.
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Team USA kicked it off with a record-breaking gold medal, courtesy of an impressive mixed aerials performance from Kaila Kuhn, Connor Curran and Chris Lillis. The Americans now have 11 golds in Italy, their most in a single Winter Games.
Later, though, U.S. women’s curling fell short of its first-ever medal, losing 10-7 to Canada in a back-and-forth, bronze-medal game that ultimately saw the Canadian women return to the Olympic podium for the first time since 2014.
American speedskater Jordan Stolz barely missed out on a medal, too. The 21-year-old phenom finished fourth in long-track’s most chaotic event, the mass start.
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There’s no defending Finland’s defensive mindset in come-from-ahead loss to Canada
Finland took a 2-0 lead in the Olympic men's hockey semifinal with well-timed aggression. They lost it with constant conservatism. Elsa / Getty Images
MILAN — In Massillon, Ohio, a small town just outside of Canton, the home of football, newborn babies are presented with a miniature football.
In Finland, newborns might as well be handed a whiteboard with the Wedge Plus One formation drawn up on it.
Finns are born penalty killers, raised with a defense-first mindset and taught to play smart, safe, opportunistic, annoying-as-hell hockey from birth. It’s why they’re fighting against the big boys for medals in every tournament, from the juniors to the Olympics, despite barely having enough NHLers to fill up their roster. The smallest of the Big Four earns its spot alongside Canada, the United States and Sweden with blood, sweat and clears. Puck comes in, puck goes out. Rinse, repeat. Eventually, there’ll be a chance to make a play offensively, but the Finns never force it.
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