How to watch USA vs. Canada men's hockey gold medal game

Sixteen years have passed since the U.S. and Canada last met in an Olympic men’s hockey final, and the rivalry is as heated as ever. After each side won its semifinal on Friday, they will face off for gold at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics; their last final meeting was in 2010, a 3-2 overtime win for Canada on a Sidney Crosby goal, and Crosby missed his team’s semifinal this year after suffering an injury in the quarterfinals.

The gold medal game starts Sunday, February 22 at 8 a.m. ET/5 a.m. PT, airing on the network and streaming on the service. Olympic coverage begins at 7 a.m. ET on both the broadcast and the streaming platform. Canada leads all nations with 16 Olympic men’s hockey medals, while the U.S.

has 11. Team USA is captained by Auston Matthews and features Norris Trophy winner Quinn Hughes alongside Brady Tkachuk and Matthew Tkachuk. The Americans beat Latvia, Denmark and Germany in preliminaries, then defeated Sweden 2-1 in the quarterfinal and Slovakia 6-2 to reach their first gold-medal game since 2010.

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