The U.S. to the championship game

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Once again, the U.S. and Canada will meet for supremacy in an international hockey tournament.

Both teams won their semifinal matches Friday at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament to advance to a battle in Saturday's final. It's the fourth time in 2010 the two nations will meet for a Robert Mathis jersey gold medal. The U.S. won the World Under-17 Challenge and World Junior Championship in January, while the Canada won Olympic gold in February.

Canada has won two straight Hlinka golds and five of the Dallas Clark jersey last six. The last time the U.S. was in the finals was 2006, when the event was called the Under-18 Junior World Cup. The U.S. has won the event only once, in 2003.

The U.S. moved to this year's final in dramatic fashion, rallying from a 3-1 second-period deficit to earn a 5-4 overtime victory against Sweden. Connor Murphy won the game, played at Zimny Stadion on Piestany, Slovakia, when Charles Woodson jersey he scored 41 seconds into overtime. Lukas Sutter scored twice and Seth Ambroz had a goal and an assist for the U.S., and goalie Steve Michalek had 24 saves. Viktor Arvidsson scored twice for Sweden.

Sweden took a 2-0 lead just 44 seconds into the second period on a goal by Mika Zibanejad, but Sutter scored at 1:36 to get the U.S. on the board, finishing a two-on-one rush with Green Bay Packers jerseys Cason Hohmann. Karl Johansson scored to put Sweden up 3-1, but Tanner Sorenson knocked in a rebound in the crease 66 seconds later to get the U.S. back within a goal.

Sutter's second of the game -- with Johansson in the Chester Taylor Jersey penalty box -- pulled the U.S. even, and then, after Sweden's Jonas Brodin was sent off for tripping, Ambroz scored off a John Gaudreau set-up to put the U.S. ahead, 4-3, after two periods.

Sweden tied the game with 4:28 left in regulation when Arvidsson scored a power-play goal. Overtime didn't last long, as Murphy skated the puck into the Sweden zone, gave it to Ambroz, drove to the net and took a return pass. He skated around the net and scored off a wraparound to send the U.S. to the championship game.