William Nylander to miss Sweden-Canada game

Nylander was held out of Wednesday’s 5-0 win over Denmark and will miss Sweden’s preliminary round finale on New Year’s Eve against Team Canada.

“I think they have the approach to this as we are”, Bergsten said. He provided no new information on Nylander’s condition or the timetable for his return to play.

He moved Colin White, an Ottawa Senators prospect, into DeBrincat’s spot, and that line was dominant in the final two games of the preliminary round, including a 4-1 defeat of Denmark on Thursday.

Sweden scored three times on the power play in Thursday’s victory. They fell apart at the end, taking a bad penalty, and giving the win to the Russians on a plate.

The other three quarter-final matchups will see Russian Federation face Denmark, Sweden faces Slovakia and Team USA faces the Czech Republic. “We try to forget those games that we’ve lost”.

“It’s about Finland and it’s about the next game”. The Danes face the Russians.

The outcome of the Canada-Sweden game was meaningless to the standings.

Finland dressed only 5 defencemen for the game and started the second without Vili Saarjärvi who was unwell. Canada’s forwards have yet to settle in to any steady lines. David Pastrnack added a pair of assists in the loss. The game was fast, exciting and closely fought throughout. Although he gave up two goals in the first period, both were on deflections from the offensively challenged Swiss. Finland got the go-ahead goal on the first power play of the game, and Kasperi Kapanen got an assist and his second point of the tournament.

The excitement continued in the third period with Pastrnak the difference maker for the Czechs. Puljujärvi tied the game up with ten minutes left, and Laine got the game victor a few minutes later. “I think no one cares about the round robin”.

Alexander Nylander and Gustav Forsling opened the scoring for Sweden, which rolled through its four group games with four victories.

Sweden scored a pair of power play goals early on in the opening frame before Mitchell Stephens responded with a goal for Canada to make the score 2-1 for Sweden heading into the second period. No matter how good the looks, it felt as though Canada’s offense couldn’t find their way past his glove.

Team Sweden would strike again on the power play as Adrian Kempe scored to restore their two goal lead.

The chance of a Canadian comeback was diminished seven minutes into the third period, when William Karlsson pounced on a Blackwood rebound to give Sweden a 4-1 advantage.

Puljujarvi, a top prospect for the 2016 NHL Draft, leads the tournament with five goals and 12 points in four games.

If Canada can get by the Finns, they’d likely face the unbeaten, untied Swedes.