Olympic update: Canadian men’s hockey team secures trip to semi-finals

The Canadian men’s hockey team is heading to the semi-finals after Mitch Marner secured the win over the Czechs with a goal in overtime.

Macklin Celebrini scored Canada’s first goal of the match against Czechia, but it was followed up later in the first quarter with a tying shot from Czech forward Lukas Sedlak.

Putting Czechia up 2-1 in the first period was David Pastrňák, taking advantage of a power play.

In the second period of the game, Canadian captain Sidney Crosby went out with an injury. He did not return for the remainder of the match.

The injury happened following a hit from Czechia’s Radko Gudas. Crosby was then seen struggling to put weight on his right side and was visibly taking caution when walking down the tunnel.

After Crosby’s exit, Nathan MacKinnon put the game at 2-2 with a power play goal off a pass from Macklin Celebrini.

Czechia took the lead toward the end of the third period with a goal from Ondřej Palát.

Canada’s Nick Suzuki responded with a goal, tying the game at 3-3.

Soon after hitting the ice in overtime, Marner put a shot top right to get the win for Canada, sending the men’s team to the semi-finals.

Falling short on the slopes

Snowboarder Mark McMorris finished in eighth place after a hard fall attempting a frontside 1800 on his third run of the slopestyle final.

Marion Thénault finished with a high score of 108.61 in the aerials qualifiers this morning, but the 23-year-old from Quebec missed the cut for the aerials finals.

Canadian snowboarder Laurie Blouin claimed fifth place, while Juliette Pelchat took ninth in the slopestyle final.

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