Tensions boiled over as Brad Jacobs' Canada beat Sweden 8-6 in an intense round-robin curling game on Friday, with Niklas Edin's team alleging that their opponents were double touching the stone during the contest.

MILAN — The head coaches for the Canadian and Swedish men’s hockey teams broke new Olympic ground Monday when they closed their practices to the media, hiding their systems work and line combinations from prying eyes ready to send that information back home to nations full of fans obsessing over every last detail they can get on their teams.

Finland showed plenty of fight in reviving its Olympic campaign. Joel Armia scored a short-handed goal and the Finns outmuscled archrival Sweden in a 4-1 group-stage victory Friday — 20 years after the sides squared off in the gold medal game at the Turin Games.

For Captain Auston Matthews, one motto summed up the game for the U.S. men's hockey team on Saturday: "It's not how you start; it's how you finish." Despite trailing 2-1 to Denmark after the first period,

For the Big Three in hockey, anything less than outright victory is an utter failure — and what a shame that is.