Finland earns feisty win over Sweden at Olympics as McDavid and Crosby score in Canada's victory

MILAN (AP) — 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.

Finland’s win — after losing its opener at the Milan Cortina Games to Slovakia — leaves the group’s quarterfinal spot up for grabs Saturday.

“Everybody was fired up for this, and I’m sure they were, too,” Finland defenseman Olli Maatta said. “These are unbelievable games to play in, and I’m very happy with the win today. We’ve just got to build off that.”

The scrappy matchup featured pushing and shoving at the end of the second period, even if the stakes were lower than the 2006 Turin Games final. Sweden won that one, which still resonates today for both countries.

Friday's third period opened with three players in the penalty box for each team — five for roughing and one for holding.

Anton Lundell scored in the first period and prevented a Sweden goal midway through the third — with his team leading 3-1 — when he swept the puck off the goal line.

“I don’t really know what happened, but all of sudden the puck was going in the net and I was lucky to be close and I was lucky that nobody pushed it in before me,” the Florida Panthers center said.

No one was happier than goalie Juuse Saros: “Obviously a big thanks to him.”

Saros made 34 saves.

The Finns outworked their rivals on the boards and were rewarded on a second-period penalty kill when Erik Haula shielded the puck from three Swedes and passed to Armia, who was alone in front of net to make it 3-1.

Finland scored twice in the opening period before Sweden fought back with Rasmus Dahlin's power-play goal in the second to make it 2-1.

Finland opened the scoring on its second shot on goal. Nikolas Matinpalo’s wrist shot beat Filip Gustavsson glove side, hit the left post and went in. Gustavsson gave up two early goals against Italy in Sweden’s opening 5-2 victory.

The Finns doubled their lead thanks to hard work in the corner by Eetu Luostarinen, whose shot on net hit Panthers teammate Lundell’s stick, went off Gustavsson and in.

Finland killed off two third-period power plays before Mikko Rantanen's empty-net goal sealed the victory.

Tensions frayed in the closing seconds of the end of the second period. Three helmets ended up on the ice after the horn blew.

“You’re down, you’ve got to do something to try to change the momentum," Sweden forward Adrian Kempe said, “so you just try to get in there and create or something just to turn our game around and fire your teammates up or fans or whatever it is.”

Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby scored in a 5-1 victory over Switzerland as Canada improved to 2-0. Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and two assists.

Thomas Harley and Macklin Celebrini also scored for the tournament favorite.

McDavid scored his first Olympic goal when — on a first-period power play — he took a back-post pass from MacKinnon and beat goalie Akira Schmid with a wrist shot.

About a minute later, Schmid made an acrobatic stop to deny Crosby on a breakaway by lifting his left skate in the air to block the Pittsburgh star’s backhand attempt.

McDavid added an assist when he fed Harley, who snapped a shot through Schmid’s pads for a 2-0 lead midway through the first.

Pius Suter tapped in a power-play goal for Switzerland in the first.

Celebrini made it 3-1 early in the second by taking MacKinnon's pass and scoring from close range shortly after Canada killed off a penalty. The San Jose Sharks center, at 19 the youngest player on Canada’s team, also scored Thursday in a win over Czechia.

In the third, Crosby scored by redirecting a hard pass to the crease by Mitch Marner. MacKinnon made it 5-1 with just under seven minutes left when he slid home a rebound.

Switzerland's loss was made worse by a leg injury to forward Kevin Fiala of the Los Angeles Kings late in the game. He was taken off the ice on a stretcher.

Adam Ruzicka’s third-period goal stood as the winner in Slovakia’s 3-2 victory over Italy. Matus Sukel and Libor Hudacek also scored for Slovakia, which improved to 2-0 to lead Group B ahead of Saturday's group-stage finale against Sweden.

Dustin Gazley, whose goal cut the lead to 3-2 with 3:35 remaining, also assisted on Matt Bradley’s goal for winless Italy. Gazley and Bradley are among Italy's group of foreign-born players. Italy plays Finland on Saturday.

Czechia rebounded from its Group A opening loss to Canada by beating France 6-3. Louis Boudon scored twice for France, which led 3-2 on Hugo Gallet's second-period goal before Czechia took over. David Pastrnak's goal tied it at 3-all and Matej Stransky put the Czechs ahead late in the second. Filip Chlapik and Roman Cervenka scored in the third. Pastrnak assisted on Martin Necas' opener in the first, when Michal Kempny also scored.

The U.S. is off and faces Denmark on Saturday in Group C.

The three group winners in the 12-team tournament qualify directly to the quarterfinals, along with the best second-place team. The remaining teams enter a one-game playoff to join the final eight.

AP Winter Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics

Canada's Sidney Crosby, right, fails to score past Switzerland's goalkeeper Akira Schmid during a preliminary round match of men's ice hockey between Canada and Switzerland at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Canada's Connor McDavid, back, celebrates with Canada's Nathan MacKinnon after scoring his sides first goal during a preliminary round match of men's ice hockey between Canada and Switzerland at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Finland's Anton Lundell, left, scores his team's second goal past Sweden's Filip Gustavsson, during a preliminary round match of men's ice hockey between Finland and Sweden at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP)

Sweden's Mika Zibanejad, up, challenges Finland's Miro Heiskanen during a preliminary round match of men's ice hockey between Finland and Sweden at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Slovakia's Adam Ruzicka, obscured behind, celebrates scoring a goal in the third period with teammates, Peter Ceresnak (14), Martin Gernat (28), Oliver Okuliar (8) and Pavol Regenda (84) during a preliminary round match of men's ice hockey between Italy and Slovakia at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Sweden's Mika Zibanejad, up, challenges Finland's Miro Heiskanen during a preliminary round match of men's ice hockey between Finland and Sweden at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Finland's Miro Heiskanen, right, challenges Sweden's Lucas Raymond, center, as he tries to score past Finland's goalkeeper Juuse Saros during a preliminary round match of men's ice hockey between Finland and Sweden at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Sweden and Finland players fight, during a preliminary round match of men's ice hockey between Finland and Sweden at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP)

Finland's Joel Armia, left, scores his sides third goal past Sweden's goalkeeper Filip Gustavsson during a preliminary round match of men's ice hockey between Finland and Sweden at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

NEW YORK (AP) — A second suspect in the stray-bullet killing of a 7-month-old baby on a Brooklyn street was arrested Friday, police said, two days after a shooting the police commissioner called “a tragedy that truly shocks the conscience.”

Matthew Rodriguez, 18, was apprehended in Pennsylvania by New York Police Department detectives working with U.S. Marshals, the NYPD said.

The suspected shooter, 21-year-old Amuri Greene, was arrested shortly after the drive-by gunfire that killed Kaori Patterson-Moore. Greene pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges at an arraignment Friday night.

Kaori was in her stroller when a two men sped down a street on a moped Wednesday afternoon. Greene, riding on the back of the vehicle, fired into a group of people on a street corner, according to a court complaint.

Kaori's mother, Lianna Charles-Moore, told the New York Post that after hearing what she initially believed were fireworks, she was comforting her startled 2-year-old son — who had been grazed by a bullet — when she looked to her left and saw her baby daughter bleeding. The infant had been shot in the head.

“My daughter was innocent. She didn’t deserve that," Charles-Moore told the newspaper. She said her daughter was just about starting to crawl and had recently begun saying “Mama.”

Greene told police he was aiming for another person in the crowd, according to the court complaint.

Police said the moped sped and crashed into a car two blocks away, hurling both men off the vehicle. Greene was injured and soon was hospitalized in police custody, but the moped driver fled.

Authorities haven't yet released court papers that detail Rodriguez's alleged role. But they haven't indicated they were looking for anyone other than the gunman — alleged to have been Greene — and the moped driver.

Greene was being held without bail after his arraignment. A voice message seeking comment was left with his attorney.

Police didn't immediately have information on how the men are connected or where Rodriguez lives; no working telephone number for him could immediately be found. Police charges against him were pending.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch expressed heartbreak and outrage over Kaori's death.

“This is a terrible day in our city, a tragedy that truly shocks the conscience,” Tisch said at a news briefing Wednesday.

This image taken from video provided by the New York Police Department shows New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, flanked by Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, left, and Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, speaking during a news conference, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in New York. (NYPD via AP)