Canada's Nathan MacKinnon scores on Finland goalie Kevin Lankinen during Monday's 4 Nations Tourney at TD Garden. (AP photo)

BOSTON (AP) — 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 finals.

On the same ice where he clinched the 2019 Stanley Cup for the St. Louis Blues, Jordan Binnington stopped 23 shots to give Canada a chance to avenge its 3-1 round-robin loss to the Americans. 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.

The tournament is the NHL’s return to international competition after sitting out the 2018 and 2022 Olympics. It delivered a fight-filled U.S.-Canada game last week against a backdrop of frosty real-world relations between the countries, spurred by President Donald Trump’s talk of tariffs — or even turning turning Canada into the 51st U.S. state.

The Americans suffered their first loss of the tourney, 2-1 to Sweden on Monday night, a game that lost any meaning once Canada clinched the second spot in the final. The U.S. won both of its previous round-robin games, earning the top spot in the pool.

After the tepid booing during the Canadian national anthem, Monday’s matinee had little of the intensity that filled the Belle Center in Montreal for the preliminaries.

Until the final 2 minutes.

McDavid opened the scoring just four minutes in and then MacKinnon made it 2-0 less than a minute later. Before five minutes had elapsed, the Finns had used their timeout in an attempt to settle things down.

Point gave the Canadians a 3-0 lead late in the first, and then MacKinnon made it 4-0 five minutes into the second. That was all for Kevin Lankinen, who stopped five of nine shots in all.

Juuse Saros made 14 saves the rest of the way.

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. With Saros pulled for an extra attacker, Mikael Granlund scored a pair of goals in the final 2 minutes to make it a one-goal game before Crosby flipped a loose puck from center ice into the empty net.

SWEDEN 2, U.S. 1

Chris Kreider gave the Americans the lead in the opening minute, but Gustav Nyquist tied it a dozen minutes later and Jesper Bratt gave Sweden the lead with less than a minute remaining in the first period. The next two periods remained scoreless despite the Americans having an overall 32-23 edge in shots on goal.

Samuel Ersson made 31 saves in goal for Sweden

The nightcap meant nothing to either the Americans or Swedes: The U.S. had already clinched a spot in Thursday night’s championship game against Canada, which beat Finland earlier Monday, and Sweden needed Canada to falter to have a chance of making the final.

With some fans wearing powdered wigs and colonial-era tricorn hats, the Boston crowd bellowed “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the game — a response to the Canadians who booed the U.S. national anthem before the early matchups in Montreal. Chants of “U-S-A!” rang out through the TD Garden in the final minutes, with goalie Jake Oettinger pulled for an extra skater, but the Americans couldn’t beat Ersson to force overtime.