Canada held without medal at IIHF worlds

COPENHAGEN Canada will come home without a medal for the first time in four years after dropping a 4-1 decision to the United States in Sunday’s bronze-medal game at the world hockey championship.

“Coming here, we expect gold and expect to compete for gold and when you don’t, it’s disappointing,” said alternate captain Ryan O’Reilly. “We still wanted to beat the U.S. and prove we’re the better team but we just didn’t have the jump. We gave them a lot.

“Overall, it’s a disappointing tournament. It feels like a waste of time. You want to come here and compete and have a chance to win and you don’t.”

Marc-Edouard Vlasic scored the lone goal for Canada late in the second period, while Curtis McElhinney made 33 saves.

Chris Kreider scored twice for the United States, while Nick Bonino had the eventual winner with O’Reilly serving an interference penalty with 6:39 to play in the third period. Anders Lee also added an empty-net goal. Keith Kinkaid made 24 saves for the win in the U.S. net.

Canadian coach Bill Peters went back to McElhinney in net after Darcy Kuemper took the loss in Saturday’s 3-2 semifinal loss to Switzerland.

Sweden wins

Sweden capped a victorious run through the ice hockey world championship by edging Switzerland 3-2 in the final after a penalty shootout to successfully defend its title.

Forward Filip Forsberg scored the decisive goal in the shootout to give Sweden a third world title in six years, and 11th overall.

Sweden won all 10 matches at the tournament.

Sweden outshot Switzerland 38-27 but could not get the puck past goaltender Leonardo Genoni in overtime.