Cameras caught a testy NSFW exchange between the men’s Canadian curling team and Sweden during Friday’s matchup.

MILAN — The head coaches for the Canadian and Swedish men’s hockey teams broke new Olympic ground Monday when they closed their practices to the media, hiding their systems work and line combinations from prying eyes ready to send that information back home to nations full of fans obsessing over every last detail they can get on their teams.

Canada’s mixed doubles curling team failed to reach the Olympic semifinals, a result that would have stunned fans of the sport just a decade ago, South Korea’s 9-5 victory Sunday night was the Canadians’ fifth consecutive defeat and knocked them out of contention.

The United States stunned arch-rivals Canada 5-0 at the Milano Cortina Games on Tuesday, and Finland beat Switzerland 3-1 in the other Group A game of the women's Olympic ice hockey tournament.Germany

For the Big Three in hockey, anything less than outright victory is an utter failure — and what a shame that is.

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.

Slovakia will aim to improve to 3-0 at the Olympics on Saturday when it faces a Sweden team coming off a disappointing loss to rival Finland. After failing to show up on Friday, my Sweden vs. Slovakia predictions expect the Swedes to show up with a big effort.

MILAN — Sweden pulled off a stunning upset over the Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, on Friday in the Olympic women’s hockey tournament quarterfinals. The 2-0 win by the Swedes eliminates the Czechia,