QUEBEC - Team Canada is on the verge of something very special.

The Russians are now the only team that stands in the way of Canada becoming the first country to win the IIHF World Hockey Championship on home soil since 1986.

It's been a dazzling run to the gold medal game for a Canadian squad that is arguably as skilled as any that has ever been sent to this tounrnament.

No one has been able to match line of Dany Heatley, Ryan Getzlaf and Rick Nash - who are the top three scorers here after each contributing a goal in Friday's 5-4 semifinal win over Sweden.

"We have an aura around us," said Getzlaf. "We know we're going to get it."

The Swedes tested Canada more than any of its first seven opponents - especially in the second period. When Niclas Wallin scored just over two minutes into the frame, Canada trailed for the