The Avalanche forward got the scoring started in the first period of this title game. He takes home the MVP of the 4 Nations Face-Off while Connor McDavid — the OT hero — won the player of the game.

BOSTON — The Americans said it was their time, but the Canadian’s reminded them it was their game.

An advertisement for Team Canada circulated back in Montreal,“Notre équipe. Notre sport,” which translates to “Our team. Our game.”

And the Canadians played to that mantra in a 3-2 overtime win over the United States, in order to uphold their 15-year run as best-on-best champions by adding the first ever 4 Nations Face-off trophy to an already-crowded cabinet. 

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Connor McDavid has his moment.

No. 97 ended it for Canada with a winner in overtime after Jordan Binnington stopped a series of grade-As for Team USA on the other end.

Sixty minutes isn't enough.

USA and Canada are going to overtime.

It's a full-length intermission and five-on-five OT until we get a winner. No shootout here.

Incredible moment as fans honor Johnny Gaudreau by chanting "Johnny Hockey" around the four-minute mark. Team USA has had a No. 13 Gaudreau jersey in its locker room since the start of the tourament and made clear they are playing in Gaudreau's memory.

Dangerous shift from Brad Marchand's line, but Canada can't convert.

Every nervous system in the vicinity is fried out right now. An absolute classic playing out in front of our eyes.

You could cut the tension inside of TD Garden with a knife right now.

Really just one thing to note at this juncture, which is to give Jaccob Slavin his due. Incredible performance tonight from the Hurricanes defenseman. Arguably the best player in this game so far.

TV timeout, so a quick update here:

• Jordan Binnington is raising his game to this moment. So is Connor Hellebuyck. Both made a number of great saves in the last few minutes, including Hellebuyck deflecting Brandon Hagel's deflection off the post.
• No Matthew Tkachuk so far in the third. He's still on the bench but might be done for the night.
• It's absolute nonstop, pulsating hockey here. There's really nothing more to say than that. If you're not enjoying this, something's wrong.

What, you thought the last USA-Canada game couldn't be topped?

At 2-2 through 40 minutes, this one just might do it.

Just like after the first, shots are all tied up at 19 too.

The big issue right now for Team USA: Matthew Tkachuk took just one shift in the last 11:07 of the second -- technically two but the first was for just one second. It's been clear for most of the tournament that he's playing hurt but losing No. 19 for the biggest period of the tournament is exactly the opposite of what Team USA needed.

The Canadians had the better of the chances for most of that period, with a series of odd-man rushes coming after Sam Bennett's goal to tie it. But make no mistake, this could go any kind of way in the last 20.

It's all tied up in Boston.

Sam Bennett beat Connor Hellebuyck off the rush following a silky feed from Mitch Marner to make it 2-2.

Another concern for the Americans: Matthew Tkachuk has missed his last couple shifts. Dylan Larkin is skating in his place. A bad change from that line helped lead to the rush on which Bennett scored.