Oleg Znarok said.Russia will face Canada on Saturday nigh

NEW YORK -- The Olympics in their final week were still golden for NBC. Once again, NBCs nightly prime-time averages took the weeks top seven Nielsen slots. And NBC again left rival networks far behind in overall viewership.But a drop in Olympics viewers compared to the previous week was notable.So was the drop in TV viewership between the final seven nights of the Rio Olympics compared to four years ago at the London Games.Consider the erosion from 29.1 million for the London Olympics 12th night, compared to 20.7 million for the same night (last Wednesday) in Rio. Or Rios 17 million viewers for Sundays closing ceremony, compared to 31 million for London.Since 2012, viewers have gained new options and new screens for enjoying the Rio Olympics. The result: As a TV event, it clearly wasnt the same as its been in past years.Nor, for whatever reasons, was it even the same sort of TV event it had been the week before. Week-to-week audiences dropped every night, most precipitously Tuesday (down 9.3 million from the previous Tuesday), Thursday (down by 9.5 million), Saturday (down by 10.1 million) and Sundays closing ceremony (down 9.8 million from the previous Sundays competition).Even so, NBC retained the weekly ratings crown, sweeping the Top 10 with seven Olympics slots (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday and Saturday), an Olympics-themed special, Rio Gold, which ranked eighth, and The Voice and Superstore.Though down from last weeks average of 28.2 million viewers, NBC led again with an average of 19.9 million, while CBS was a distant runner-up with 3.8 million and ABC with 2.9 million. Spanish-language Univision (with 1.6 million) again topped Fox, which (with 1.39 million) was barely ahead of Telemundo (1.36 million). ION Television drew 1.1 million, followed by CW with 800,000 viewers.Meanwhile, the Olympics-coverage setting again gave NBC a bump in the evening-news contest, which typically finds NBC and ABC neck-and-neck. NBCs Nightly News was decisively on top with 9.8 million viewers, followed by ABCs World News Tonight with 7.8 million. The CBS Evening News had 6.3 million.Among cable networks in prime time last week, Fox News Channel retained its lead with 2.1 million viewers, followed by USA with 1.4 million.For the week of Aug. 15-21, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: Summer Olympic Games (Monday), NBC, 24.2 million; Summer Olympic Games (Tuesday), NBC, 24.1 million; Summer Olympic Games (Thursday), NBC, 21.70 million; Summer Olympic Games (Wednesday), NBC, 20.68 million; Summer Olympic Games (Friday), NBC, 20.1 million; Summer Olympic Games (Sunday Closing Ceremony), NBC, 17.0 million; Summer Olympic Games (Saturday), NBC, 15.4 million; Rio Gold, NBC, 11.5 million; The Voice (Sunday), NBC, 10.3 million; Superstore (Friday), NBC, 9.7 million.---ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is owned by CBS Corp. CW is a joint venture of Warner Bros. Entertainment and CBS Corp. Fox and Fox News Channel are owned by 21st Century Fox. NBC and Telemundo are owned by Comcast Corp. 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Bae played bogey-free Friday on another gorgeous day at Riviera for a 5-under 66, giving him a one-shot lead over Aaron Baddeley and Robert Garrigus going into the weekend. TORONTO -- Vladimir Tarasenko and Ivan Telegin scored 1:19 apart in the second period and Russia beat Finland 3-0 on Thursday to set up a World Cup of Hockey semifinal against Canada -- and knock out Team North America.The opportunity is huge, Russian captain Alex Ovechkin said about facing Canada. They have a pretty good team with solid players. We just have to match it. ...I play Olympic Games in [Canada] and everybody is going to be crazy. The atmospheres going to be unbelievable. Its going to be a great match to play, to be involved in, to be in the stands and be able to watch.Evgeni Malkin scored in the third period for Russia (2-1-0), and Sergei Bobrovsky made 21 saves.Its going to be a great, great challenge and we accept it, Russian forward Evgeny Kuznetsov said.Tuukka Rask made 19 saves for Finland (0-3-3). Finland was winless for the first time in a senior tournament, scoring only one goal in three games.We had a good chance to succeed here, but you dont score, you cant win, Finnish coach Lauri Marjamaki said. We have to keep going and maybe analyze a little bit later. Just now, a little bit disappointing.Russian forward Pavel Datsyuk missed the preliminnary round finale because of a minor injury.ddddddddddddA loss for us, but we did well today, Russian coach Oleg Znarok said.Russia will face Canada on Saturday night. In the other semifinal, Sweden will play Team Europe on Sunday.Finland nearly opened the scoring early in the second period when Mikael Granlund beat Bobrovsky glove-side, but rang a shot off the post.Tarasenko finished off a give-and-go with Ovechkin for his second goal of the tournament at 3:42 of the second period.Telegin picked up Vadim Shipachevs feed and powered around Rask for his first of the tournament at 5:01 of the second.Malkin scored his first of the tournament at 3:39 of the third period.Tarasenko played on the Russian team that beat Canada to win the 2011 world junior title in Buffalo, New York.I think this is one of the greatest rivalries ever: Canada against Russia, Tarasenko said. We know how they play because we play in Pittsburgh before. They have a really good team, good players, [the] best players in the world so we need to be good in a couple days. ' ' '