MALMO, Sweden - Murphy's law was in full effect on Saturday night for Team Canada as they extended their gold-medal drought at the world junior championship to five years.
The Canadians lost in the semi-final 5-1 to Finland in a game where very little went right.
Canada now plays Russia for bronze on Sunday. It marks the third-straight tournament Canada will play in the bronze-medal game.
Finland, which finished seventh last year, gets the host Swedes for gold. Sweden beat Russia 2-1 in the earlier semi.
Canada allowed the first goal against Finland 4:19 into the second period as a result of a bizarre bounce.
Finnish defenceman Julius Honka rimmed a shoot-in along the boards, but the puck jutted in front of the Canadian net.
Joni Nikko got there first before Canadians Mathew Dumba or Frederik Gauther could.
Goaltender Zach Fucale barely realized where the puck was before it went in.
The next two Finnish goals came immediately after great stops by Fucale.
Fucale stopped a redirection by Saku Maenalanen on a Finnish power play, but Artturi Lehtonen cleaned up the mess in front.
Jonathan Drouin closed the gap to within in one for Canada, but Rasmus Ristolainen restored Finland's two-goal lead.
Ristolainen's marker came seconds after Fucale dove back to rob Otto Rauhala of an open-net chance following a three-way passing play. It will likely be the save of the tournament.
To top off the scoring, Teuvo Teravainen scored on a penalty shot with 3:12 remaining.
Canadian defenceman Derrick Pouliot hauled down Henrik Haapala on a breakaway, but the shot was given to Teravainen after Haapala seemed to indicate he was too hurt to shoot.
Teravainen then scored into an empty net in the final minute. His three points on Sunday give him 12 in the tournament, tying Canadian Anthony Mantha and Swede Filip Forsberg for most in the event.
Canada also took two 10-minute misconduct penalties.
Nic Petan was called for abuse of an official, while Jonathan Drouin was called for checking to the head. It was his second such penalty of the tournament. He was called for that infraction against Slovakia.
Canada was also 0-for-5 on the power play. Finland had killed off 95% of its penalties entering the game, best in the tourney.
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