MILAN — Neither of the favorites has been tested at these Olympics yet, not truly.

But Team Canada spent the preliminary round marking out its territory as the dominant force of the men’s hockey tournament here.

Through three games, the last of which was an easy 10-2 win over France on Sunday afternoon, the Canadians outscored opponents 20-3.

Twelve players scored goals in the preliminaries; nine players did so Sunday.

Canada never trailed.

None of its pairs or line combinations — with Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon and Sidney Crosby as the top three centermen — struggled, but for good measure, coach Jon Cooper combined McDavid and Macklin Celebrini with MacKinnon in Canada’s second game, a 5-1 win over Switzerland.

What he got was a Death Star-like weapon, which he broke out again against the French, who were predictably and totally overmatched Sunday.

“It’s fast,” Crosby said. “The speed, it’s amazing to see them together. Obviously Mack’s seeing the ice really well. He’s creating a lot himself. It’s fun.

“Seeing those guys in practice or in games, up close, seeing what they can do and the speed that they do it at, knowing everyone on the ice solely wants to find a way to shut them down or limit their chances. They work so hard. It’s fun to see them do their thing for sure.”

The closest thing to suspense Sunday afternoon came when Floran Douay tied the game at 1-1 just 13 seconds after Tom Wilson opened the scoring for Canada.

That tie lasted 39 seconds before Devon Toews scored, and that was pretty much it.

From there, the most exciting thing was Tom Wilson dropping gloves with Frenchman Pierre Crinon in the third period, with both players promptly getting ejected, as fighting is illegal under IIHF rules.

Crinon had caught MacKinnon with an elbow up high a few minutes prior.

“I think that’s a big part of what we’re all about and what this team we brought together [is about],” Cooper said. “These guys go through a wall for each other.”

The Canadians all but officially sealed the No. 1 seed in the knockout round due to the lopsided margin.

The United States could, technically, catch them later Sunday, but entered their game against Germany needing to make up 10 goals to do so.

Of course, that was the expectation for this wildly talented Team Canada.

Everything, though, is humming along as smoothly as can be.

McDavid is the tournament’s points leader, averaging one per period of play, and appears on a mission for gold.

Crosby’s three points Sunday made him Canada’s all-time leading point-getter in the NHL’s Olympic era.

Celebrini, who became the first NHL player to convert a penalty shot at the Olympics on Sunday, is dominating the Games at 19 years old.

Go down the roster and not a single player is underperforming.

“We did what we came to do,” McDavid said. “We came to win a hockey game and continue to get better.”

To the extent there is concern, it is that Josh Morrissey was hurt in Canada’s first game (Cooper said he will return before the Olympics are over), and that goalie Jordan Binnington let in two goals against France.

Brad Marchand, a scratch in the past two games, has been dealing with an injury, too, Cooper said, but is expected to play in Canada’s quarterfinal Wednesday.

So minor are these issues that when asked what improvements Canada could make, Cooper mocked walking out of his news conference.

“I didn’t want this one to slip through the cracks. It didn’t,” he said. “And now we’re ready to play those games that you have to advance.”