Brayden Point also scored and Sam Reinhart had three assists as Canada opened a 4-0 lead in the first 25 minutes before watching Finland scramble back to make it a one-goal game in the final 100 seconds.
Nathan MacKinnon scored twice and Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist apiece as Canada surged to a four-goal lead and held on to beat Finland 5-3 on Monday to earn a rematch against the United States in the 4 Nations Face-Off final.
With Saros pulled for an extra attacker, Mikael Granlund scored a pair of goals in the final two minutes to make it a one-goal game before Crosby flipped a loose puck from center ice into the empty net.
Binnington stopped Finland’s first 19 shots before Esa Lindell scored with about seven minutes remaining to end the bid for what would have been the first shutout of the tournament.
It delivered a fight-filled US-Canada game last week against a backdrop of frosty real-world relations between the countries, spurred by US [resident Donald Trump’s talk of tariffs – or even turning turning Canada into the 51st US state.
