{"id":473832,"date":"2026-02-11T23:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/473832\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:14:07","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-forward-william-nylander-groin-active-for-sweden-against-hosts-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/473832\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs forward William Nylander (groin) active for Sweden against hosts Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">William Nylander is a go for Sweden in their Olympics opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Toronto Maple Leafs winger will play as Tre Kronor takes on hosts Italy at Milano Cortina. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nylander will skate on the top line with Adrian Kempe and Joel Eriksson Ek.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"sv\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udce3 H\u00e4r \u00e4r det, laget vi st\u00e4ller upp med i f\u00f6rsta matchen av herrturneringen \ud83d\udd25\u2060 <br \/>\u26a0\ufe0f M\u00e5lvakterna \u00e4r skrivna i nummerordning. Startande m\u00e5lvakt bekr\u00e4ftas strax innan matchstart. \u2060 <br \/>\ud83d\udcfa\ufe0f TV4\/TV4 Play\u2060 <br \/>\ud83d\udcfb\ufe0f Radiosporten\u2060 \u2060 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/trekronorherr?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#trekronorherr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VUqJJwGv0Q\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VUqJJwGv0Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tre Kronor (@Trekronorse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Trekronorse\/status\/2021663210525569460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Calgary-born Nylander had skated earlier on Wednesday and took part in a power-play drill, but Sweden head coach Sam Hallam wouldn\u2019t commit to his participation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m not really sure yet &#8230; I need to check with the medical staff and Willy,\u201d Hallam said. \u201cHe looked good out there &#8230; We\u2019re not going to risk anything for tonight, but if he feels good he\u2019s going to play\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nylander, 29, has been dealing with a groin injury that has kept him out of 13 games this season across two stints.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 40 games this season, Nylander has 18 goals and 34 assists. He is coming off of three-straight 40-plus goal seasons.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"William Nylander is a go for Sweden in their Olympics opener. The Toronto Maple Leafs winger will play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,575,85,113126,143738],"class_list":["post-473832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10","tag-william-nylander-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8477939"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}