The dream rematch is locked in.

Canada, facing the prospect of being bounced out of the 4 Nations Faceoff before the final, punched its ticket to Thursday’s championship game against Team USA with a too-close-for-comfort 5-3 victory over Finland at the Garden on Monday.

Nathan MacKinnon led the way for Canada, potting a pair of goals in the first 25 minutes.

Canada appeared to be cruising to victory but the Finns scored three late third period goals, the last two with the goalie pulled before Sidney Crosby ended it with an empty-netter.

Now the Canadians will get another chance at the Americans, which took the first game 3-1 in Montreal on Saturday night. If it has half the electricity of the first game, which had three fights in the first nine seconds, the Garden will see quite a hockey game.

Canada’s regulation win rendered the nightcap between the US and Sweden simply a pride game for the Swedes. And one big boost the Canadians will have in their second try against the US will be the presence of it’s game-breaking defenseman Cale Makar, who missed Saturday’s game with an illness but returned to the lineup against Finland.

In Monday’s afternoon game, Canada established control of the game with a two goals in 46 seconds from two of Team Maple Leaf’s brightest lights.

First, Connor McDavid put Canada up by a goal. He first attacked in the offensive zone and, after being briefly repelled, he circled around the left dot and snapped a far side wrist shot that beat goalie Kevin Lankinen.

Then on the next shift, it was MacKinnon’s turn. He was sprung by Sam Reinhart high in the offensive zone and, after breaking in alone, he beat Lankinen with a low wrister.

At that point, Finnish coach Antti Pennanen called timeout to slow things down.

It worked — but not for long.

Brayden Point made it 3-0 at 13:02 on a goal that just looked too easy. After Lankinen stopped a Travis Sanheim shot off the rush, Point knifed through Finland’s non-existent defense for the rebound and put home a backhander.

Canada held an 11-5 shot advantage through 20 minutes.

MacKinnon’s second goal at 5:03 of the second period removed any doubt in this one. The Avalanche star one-timed a Sidney Crosby feed from behind the net to beat Lankinen. That chased the netminder in favor of Juuse Saros.

When the Finns finally pushed a little bit late in the second, the Canadians were committed to not allowing second chances. On the first chance, Jordan Binnington was very good.

But the Finns played till the end. Finland eventually got one by Binnington at 13:19 of the third with Esa Lindell scoring a post-and-in shot. The Finns didn’t give up.

Mikhail Granlund scored a pair of goals 22 seconds apart with Saros pulled but Crosby ended it with an empty-netter.