BOSTON — Cale Makar returned to the lineup for Canada in a 5-3 win against Finland at the 4 Nations Face-Off at TD Garden on Monday.
The defenseman had four shots on goal and four blocked shots while playing a Canada-best 23:57. Canada next will play the United States in the championship game on Thursday (8 p.m. ET; ESPN, ESPN+, SN, TVAS).
“I feel great,” Makar said. “I felt really good today.”
Makar would not go into details of what he was dealing with the past few days, but did say, “it was really unfortunate.”
“I did everything I possibly could to play in that game [3-1 loss to the U.S. on Saturday], and hopefully, obviously, we get another crack at them now, so it’d be ready for that, but no, [I’m] feeling a lot better…