Jarvis, Canada Win 4 Nations Face-Off Championship

BOSTON - It took three grueling periods and 8:18 of breakneck overtime hockey, but Seth Jarvis and Team Canada captured the 4 Nations Face-Off championship with a 3-2 victory over Team USA at TD Garden in Boston on Thursday.

Thanks to Connor McDavid's OT heroics, Canada got its revenge on the U.S. after falling to its rival in Montreal last Saturday. The two clubs traded goals through regulation time on Thursday, providing a thrilling follow-up to the fireworks at Bell Centre in the round-robin clash.

Jarvis skated 12:45 in the title tilt, making his return to the Canadian lineup after sitting out his team's last game against Finland. He recorded one shot, blocked another and doled out three hits en route to a gold medal in his senior international debut.

Playing on Thursday in front of friends and family who made the trip east, the Winnipeg, Man. native finished the four-game foray with one assist, recorded in Canada's opener against Sweden.

Jarvis previously represented his home country in international competition at the 2018 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge and won silver at the 2019 Hlinka Gretzky Cup, posting four points in five games.

On the flip side, it was a cruel result for Team USA defenseman and Hurricanes alternate captain Jaccob Slavin as the blueliner was among the best skaters on either club in Thursday's championship and throughout the tournament.

Logging the game's second-highest ice time at 28:32 - just 18 seconds behind his partner, Minnesota's Brock Faber - Slavin routinely held Canada's stars in check and officially recorded three blocked shots, including one from his own Carolina teammate in Jarvis.

Slavin concluded his tournament run with the seventh-highest average ice time among all skaters and a team-high +3 rating. Only Canada's Nathan MacKinnon - who was named tournament MVP - and Sweden's Joel Eriksson Ek (both +4) recorded higher plus-minus ratings.