{"id":487912,"date":"2026-02-18T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487912\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:37:09","slug":"penguins-erik-karlsson-collects-assist-in-swedens-win-against-latvia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487912\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins\u2019 Erik Karlsson collects assist in Sweden\u2019s win against Latvia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A look at how members of the Pittsburgh Penguins are performing in the Winter Olympics:<\/p>\n<p>Penguins defenseman Erik Karlsson recorded a primary assist for Sweden, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iihf.com\/en\/events\/2026\/olympic-m\/gamecenter\/statistics\/68697\/22-swe-vs-lat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">defeated Latvia, 5-1<\/a>, in a qualification playoff game at the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena in Milan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Karlsson\u2019s assist happened on a goal by forward Filip Forsberg at 27:36 of the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Opening the contest on the right side of Sweden\u2019s third pairing, Karlsson logged 20:01 of ice time on 24 shifts and had four shots.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins forward Rickard Rakell was held without a point for Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning play on the right wing of the third line, Rakell registered 12:55 of ice time on 16 shifts and tallied one shot.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden is scheduled to face the United States in the quarterfinal round on Wednesday, 3:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Penguins goaltender Arturs Silovs dressed as the backup goaltender in Tuesday\u2019s game and did not play.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in three games, Silovs finished the tournament with a 1-1 record, a 3.01 goals-against average and an .872 save percentage. Latvia finished in 10th place of the 12-team tournament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iSq6fVNVZBQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Highlights<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A look at how members of the Pittsburgh Penguins are performing in the Winter Olympics: Penguins defenseman Erik&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-487912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487912","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=487912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}