Team USA to battle Canada for Olympic gold after dominant performance against Slovakia

The free bird is flying high at the Milan Cortina Games.

The United States men's Olympic hockey team dominated Slovakia from start to finish on Friday, winning 6-2 to set up a gold medal game against their archrival Canada.

Dylan Larkin got the scoring started early in the game, and Tage Thompson found the back of the net in the closing moments of the first to put the Americans up 2-0.

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It was the second period, though, that was dominant.