Yesterday Team Canada Men went down 2-0 to Finland and then scored three to take the win seconds before the end of the game. If you're Canadian you think the team in red worked hard to overcome the Finnish defence. If you're Finnish you think the outrage to end all outrages is a legitimate penalty call late in the third period.

- TSN
Bryan Hayes, Jeff O’Neill and Jamie McLennan are joined by Hockey Hall of Famer and Finnish legend Teemu Selanne to discuss the late penalty to Niko Mikkola on Nathan MacKinnon that sent Canada to the gold medal game, how the game played out after Finland went up 2-0, what he would’ve said to the team in between periods and how do they reset for the bronze medal game.
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The bit after the dots says... to listen to him whine like a baby about a penalty call.

If you're a neutral you might thing this:

Mike Johnson on the broadcast phrased it as: they've parked the bus for a long time.

Or maybe it was this other thing:

This refrain of whining about officiating after a loss is unseemly and while the Finns are not quite so absurd as the Czechia coach, they are nonetheless acting like fans of the most petulant sort.

You likely all have read these words from me before: you play the game in front of you. There will be hardships, injuries, bad ice, mistakes by officials, missed calls, different views on events, different ideologies being served. Don't whine about it afterwards, or worse, during the game itself. That's a thing you should have outgrown before you were legal age. You either overcome it or you don't.

In the other semifinal, the USA dispatched the Slovaks 6-2.

The bronze-medal game is today at 2:30 pm ET, and the gold-medal game is tomorrow at 8 am. Yes, you read that right, Sunday at 8 in the morning. No word on Sidney Crosby's status.

Why Macklin Celebrini is already a Team Canada superstar
Macklin Celebrini sometimes gets compared to Sidney Crosby, a generation’s best player. And it’s not completely unfounded. Justin Bourne and Jason Bukala express why Celebrini is special and gets these comparisons.
Sportsnet.caJustin Bourne
To go with the justified superlatives heaped on Macklin Celebrini to date, I’ve rarely seen someone better prepared for those cracks in the structure, less awed by the greatness tornado being whipped up just a few feet from where he’s skating. 
That’s because Celebrini has “it” too.

Yes. And you can't really tell when you've got a guy like this, a rookie on a team like the Sharks. He's obviously good, but you can't believe in the points although they certainly tell you to take a second look. Believe now. He is a special player.

Okay, that's it have a great Saturday.

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