World Championship: Puljujarvi scores twice, Puustinen adds another in Finland loss

Jesse Puljujarvi scored two goals and Penguins teammate Valtteri Puustinen added a third to round out Finland's scoring in their 5-3 loss to Canada in the preliminary round of the World Championship in Czechia Saturday morning.

Puljujvari opened the scoring relatively early, as he caught his own rebound off of a deflection and shoveled it past Canadian goaltender Jordan Binnington with just 1:35 off the clock in he first period.

It took just 2 minutes and 16 seconds for Puustinen to match that effort. He gave Finland a 2-0 lead on this power-play goal with 3:51 off the clock:

Canada responded with two goals in the final 5:07 of the first period, but Puljujarvi brought the Finnish back on top with another rebound cleanup for a goal with 3:53 to play in the second period:

Canada roared back and took a 4-3 lead on Brandon Hagel's short-handed goal with 8:28 to play. Dawson Mercer scored an empty-net goal to seal the win for the Canadians with 21 seconds to play.

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Pettersson gave the Swedes a 6-2 lead towards the end of the second period with this wrister from in between the faceoff circles.

His goal was the final in a four-goal second period for Sweden. Erik Karlsson assisted on Fabian Zetterlund's goal, the first of those four in the second. Raivis Ansons did not play for Latvia.

• Justin Addamo logged ice time on France's fourth line in their 4-2 loss to Slovakia Saturday afternoon. He did not register a shot.