Dominik Hasek stopped all five chances in a shootout and Robert Reichel scored on his nation's first shot against Patrick Roy as the Czech Republic advanced to the gold medal game with a stunning 2-1 victory over Canada.

Hasek duplicated his performance at last month's NHL International Showdown skills competition, where he again outdueled Roy in the breakaway relay and backstopped the World team to an overtime triumph over North America.

The stakes were much higher at Nagano's Big Hat Arena, where the goaltender known as "The Dominator" stopped Theoren Fleury, Ray Bourque, Joe Nieuwendyk, Eric Lindros and Brendan Shanahan. Hasek was able to recover after allowing a dramatic tying goal by Trevor Linden with 67 seconds left in regulation.

"They had probably the best team, but if you get lucky you can win," Czech forward Jaromir Jagr said. "We had the best goalie, the Dominator. He stopped every shot."

The Czech Republic won the coin toss and forced Canada to go first. Fleury came in on his forehand but Hasek got his right shoulder on the shot. Reichel put the Czechs ahead when he banked a wrist shot off the left goalpost and past Roy's stick side.

Bourque's wrister glanced off Hasek's glove but Roy smothered Martin Rucinsky's backhander with his glove and left pad to keep the margin at one.

Nieuwendyk went to his backhand but sent his shot way wide of the right goalpost before Roy squeezed his pads to stop Pavel Patera.

Lindros, the team captain and lone veteran of Canada's shootout loss to Sweden in the 1994 gold medal game at Lillehammer, deked to his backhand and appeared to have Hasek beaten but his shot caromed off the left post. Jagr, held in check before the shootout, had a chance to end it for the Czech Republic but sent a wrist shot flush off the left post.

Shanahan had Canada's last chance but drifted in too deep and, given no room to shoot, wristed the puck off Hasek's was glove, sending the Czech bench streaming onto the ice to congratulate the goalie who has allowed only six goals in five games in this tournament.

The Czech Republic, which has never won an Olympic gold medal even under the united Czechoslovakia, will play for one on Saturday against the winner of the other semifinal between Russia and Finland .

The Czechs were just over a minute away from the gold medal game when Linden scored what briefly appeared to be the latest in a series of dramatic international goals for Canada. Roy was just pulled for an extra attacker when Hasek stopped shots by Linden and MacInnis. But Lindros retrieved MacInnis' rebound and centered back to Linden, whose low wrist shot from the edge of the right faceoff circle deflected up off defenseman Richard Smehlik's stick and over Hasek's glove.

Sparked by Linden's heroics, Canada dominated the 10-minute overtime, outshooting the weary Czechs, 5-1. But Hasek came up with a pair of saves on Lindros with 3:24 remaining and made an off-balance stop on Adam Foote's wrist shot from the right circle with 1:24 remaining.

Reichel had the Czech Republic's only shot in the extra period, getting off a slapper from the left faceoff circle with 51 seconds to play.

Hasek and Roy, who dueled to a scoreless tie in the National Hockey League on November 2nd, 1996, battled each other save for save through 2 1/2 periods. The Czechs finally broke through 9:46 into the third. Patera won a faceoff from Fleury in the Canadian zone, fed the puck back to Jiri Slegr at the left point and darted in front to screen Roy. Slegr moved in a couple of strides before firing a slap shot over Roy's right arm and just inside the left post.

The Czechs, who were not expected to contend for a medal, killed off a pair of Team Canada power plays in a first period that featured a combined eight shots.

Play picked up in the second period as the Czech Republic owned a 14-11 edge in shots. Roy came up with key saves on Reichel and a pair on Rucinsky early in the period before Hasek was able to stop Shanahan's deflection of Foote's point shot wtih 10 minutes left.

Hasek got his right skate on Bourque's one-timer from the top of the slot with six minutes to go and made a glove save on Shanahan's flip from the right circle moments later.

Roy was tested again and got help from forward Mark Recchi, who warded off Reichel as he cut left to right across the crease and appeared to have room to shoot with 3 1/2 minutes remaining. Canada had a scare seconds later when Josef Beranek's shot struck Roy in the right arm, bounced high in the air and rolled off the goalie's back and just wide of the net.

Canada was the second straight pre-tournament favorite that was vanquished by Hasek. He came up with 38 saves in Tuesday's 4-1 victory over the United States .

Canada, whose last Olympic gold medal came in 1952, will battle for the bronze against the Russia-Finland loser.