Canada blew a lead before making a comeback in fighting past the United States, 4-3, on Saturday to set up an ice hockey world championship final with Finland in Moscow. Finland rubbed out Russia, 3-1, in the other semifinal for a shot at its first championship in five years. Brendan Gallagher and Bruin Brad Marchand scored to give Canada a 2-0 lead at 18:02 of the first period. The US team surged in the second period to go ahead with three goals in eight minutes from Auston Matthews, David Warsofsky, who played for the Bruins and Boston University, and Tyler Motte. Derick Brassard hit back for Canada to tie the game going into the third period. Ryan Ellis scored the winner early in the third with a slap shot to the top-right corner.
Baseball
Rodriguez to come off DL
The New York Yankees plan to activate designated hitter Alex Rodriguez from the disabled list Tuesday when the team begins a three-game homestand against Toronto. Rodriguez had been out since May 4 with a strained right hamstring. Rodriguez was batting .194 with five home runs and 12 RBIs . . . New York Mets power-hitting first baseman Lucas Duda was pulled from the lineup on Saturday because of a bad back. Manager Terry Collins said Duda was examined by a doctor and had an MRI. He will have another test this weekend. Collins acknowledged Duda could have a disk problem . . . The Kansas City Royals activated third baseman Mike Moustakas (thumb) off the 15-day disabled list . . . An auction house says it is offering the jersey Bryce Harper wore during his memorable dugout fight with teammate Jonathan Papelbon last season. But Harper says they’ve got the wrong shirt and he still has the jersey in question. The website, Lelands.com, said there were six bids, with a top offer of about $4,800.
Tennis
Mauresmo explains split
Amelie Mauresmo revealed the reasons for her coaching split with Andy Murray, saying that she felt they had “reached the end’’ of what they could achieve together and the second-ranked Briton was a “complex’’ player to work with. Murray became the first high-profile tennis player to hire a woman as a coach when he took on Mauresmo in June 2014, but they ended their working relationship earlier this month . . . Stan Wawrinka warmed up for his French Open title defense by winning the Geneva Open in Switzerland, beating Marin Cilic, 6-4, 7-6 (11-9), in the final.
. . . Top-seeded Dominic Thiem beat Alexander Zverev, 6-4, 3-6, 6-0, to win the clay-court Nice Open final in France . . . Qualifier Kiki Bertens defeated Mariana Duque-Marino, 6-2, 6-2, to win the Nuremberg clay-court tournament in Germany . . . Caroline Garcia beat veteran Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, 6-4, 6-1, to win the Strasbourg International in France for her second career title.
Soccer
Red Bulls tie MLS record
Bradley Wright-Phillips and Dax McCarty each scored twice and the New York Red Bulls routed New York City FC, 7-0, to tie the MLS record for largest margin of victory . . . Arturo Alvarez scored his first MLS goal since 2010 and the host Chicago Fire held on to beat the Houston Dynamo, 1-0 . . . Toronto FC goalkeeper Clint Irwin earned his fifth shutout of the season in a 0-0 draw with the visiting Columbus Crew . . . Juan Manuel Martinez opened the scoring in the 32d minute and visiting Real Salt Lake took advantage of Sporting Kansas City’s defensive miscues for a 3-1 victory . . . Cyle Larin scored twice and Ricardo Kaka had two assists to help Orlando City beat the Montreal Impact, 2-1, to snap a six-game winless streak . . . Goalkeeper Brad Guzan is to start ahead of veteran Tim Howard for the US national team in the Copa America tournament, which starts June 3. Coach Jurgen Klinsmann announced the 23-man roster Friday. No Revolution players made the roster.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic ended his Paris Saint-Germain career in style, reaching 50 goals in an outstanding farewell season as bitter rival Marseille was beaten, 4-2, in the French Cup final in Paris . . . Bayern Munich defeated Borussia Dortmund, 4-3, on penalties in the German Cup final in Berlin to seal the club’s 11th domestic double and give coach Pep Guardiola a winning send-off . . . CSKA Moscow fought off a challenge from surprise title contender FC Rostov to win the Russian Premier League, 1-0, for the sixth time . . . Substitute Alvaro Morata scored in extra time as Juventus beat AC Milan 1-0 to win the Italian Cup in Rome . . . Edinburgh players claimed they were assaulted on the Hampden Park field by fans of opponent Hiberian after the team won win the Scottish Cup, 3-2, in Glasgow. Thousands of Hibernian fans streamed on to the field at the final whistle. Police horses were brought on to restore order as police and stewards struggled to cope.
Miscellany
Sun fall to Mystics in WNBA
Tayler Hill had a career-high 24 points and seven assists to help the Washington Mystics beat the Sun, 84-76, in overtime in a WNBA matchup in Uncasville, Conn. Alyssa Thomas scored 18, while Jasmine Thomas added 13 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists, and 3 steals for Connecticut, which fell to 1-2 on the season . . . Nneka Ogwumike had 25 points and 15 rebounds to help the Los Angeles Sparks rally past the host New York Liberty, 79-72, in overtime . . . Odyssey Sims scored 23 points in front of a hometown crowd, Skylar Diggins made her season debut coming off knee surgery and Dallas won its inaugural home game, 82-77, over the San Antonio Stars . . . James Hinchcliffe posted the fastest four-lap average in Indianapolis 500 qualifying to take the top seed into the pole shootout Sunday. Hinchcliffe finished at 230.946 miles per hour . . . Despite a hat trick from midfielder Justin Turri, the Boston Cannons had their three-game winning streak snapped in Major League Lacrosse with a 14-7 loss to the Ohio Machine at Harvard Stadium . . . Boston University was eliminated by Texas A&M in the NCAA Division 1 softball tournament as the Aggies cruised to 6-0 victory in Lafayette, La. . . . Sophomore Amanda Lee belted a two-run homer in the bottom of the first inning to advance MIT to its first NCAA Division 3 softball championship final with a 2-1 victory over WPI in Game 2 of the best-of-three Worcester Super Regional at Rooftop Field.
. . . Russia's Denis Lebedev stopped Argentina’s Victor Emilio Ramirez in the second round in Moscow to unify the WBA and IBF cruiserweight titles.
. . . Three Spainish sailors were assaulted ‘‘by five people armed with pistols’’ while training in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics, the nation’s sailing federation reported. The three were not hurt.
. . . Mourad Laachraoui, the brother of one of the Brussels airport suicide bombers, continued to enhance his prospects of representing Belgium in Summer Olympics by winning his third gold medal this year. Laachraoui earned his biggest title yet in the European taekwondo championships in Montreux, Switzerland, when he beat Spain’s Jesus Tortosa Cabrera, 6-3, in the under-54 kilogram final this week. Laachraoui was a younger brother of Najim Laachraoui, who blew himself up in Brussels in March. Laachraoui distanced himself from his brother, saying he'd had no contact with Najim since he left for Syria in 2013.
