TORONTO — Canada, as expected, is in the World Cup of Hockey finals.

Team Europe, an unexpected contender, also is in the best-of-three series.

“Nobody would guess we could be in the final,” Marian Hossa said after helping Europe beat Sweden 3-2 Sunday in the semifinals. “It was 33-to-1 odds against us.”

The host Canadians, heavy favorites, will play a team made up of eight European countries playing with a tremendous amount of collective pride and a unique sense of community in Game 1 on Tuesday night.

Canada had won 14 straight games in best-on-best tournaments since losing to the U.S. in the preliminary round of the 2010 Olympics. With superstar Sidney Crosby, who has a World Cup-best seven points, it is difficult to envision any team beating them. Even if Europe can win a game to stop the impressive streak, which is like the Americans’ run in Olympic basketball, that won’t be enough because the Canadians will have to be beaten twice to prevent them from winning the World Cup.