MILAN (AP) — Don't under-estimate Finnish resilience. Difficult as the week was for Finland’s national women’s hockey team in dealing with a stomach virus that sent 13 of 23 players into quarantine, coach Tero Lehtera had a good feeling his players would show up ready for their first game at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

The United States women's hockey team has thrashed Finland 5-0 in Milan, improving to 2-0 at these Olympic Games. Hilary Knight, Abbey Murphy, Megan Keller, Taylor Heise and Alex Carpenter scored for the U.

Finland’s outing against the U.S. will be the nation’s tournament opener after its game against Canada on Thursday was postponed to Feb. 12. The postponement came as a result of Finland having 13 of its 23 players in quarantine because of a norovirus that began affecting the team on Tuesday night.

Finland women’s hockey team’s preliminary round-opening game against Canada on Thursday has been postponed due to a stomach virus depleting Finland’s roster.

Finland wants to win a sweepstakes of another kind at the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. Finland, which is in Group B, opens its Olympic schedule against Slovakia on Wednesday (10:40 a.m. ET; Peacock, USA, CBC Gem, TSN, CBC).

Finland's women's hockey team is not sure if it will have enough players to face Canada in each team's first game at the Milan Cortina Olympics because of a stomach virus depleting its roster.

Finland is about to face the gold medal favorite Team USA in their opener of the women's Olympic hockey tournament, and they may do it with only two lines after Norovirus has left their roster ravaged.

Though Finland announced its roster Jan. 2, NHL.com is taking it a step further, taking our shot at what some countries' forward lines, defense pairs and goalie depth chart should look like.