Injured Canada captain Marie-Philip Poulin out of game against Finland

Canadian women's hockey captain Marie-Philip Poulin was scratched from the lineup in an Olympic women's hockey game against Finland.

Poulin wasn't expected to play after sustaining a lower-body injury early in Monday's 5-1 win over Czechia.

The leading active scorer in Olympic women's hockey also sat out Tuesday's 5-0 loss to the United States.

"No really big update," said Canadian hockey coach Troy Ryan. "I think the only thing really now is she skated today with our medical staff and one of our coaches. She felt well, obviously not good enough right now to put her in the game. An extra couple days will do her justice. But everything was positive from the skate that she had today, so we’re still optimistic that she’ll return at some point."

Canada and Finland are playing with second place in Group A on the line.

The game originally scheduled for the day before the opening ceremonies was postponed because of norovirus cases among the Finns.

Canada will play in a quarterfinal Saturday.