{"id":358981,"date":"2025-12-21T04:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358981\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T04:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:04:07","slug":"sweden-beats-canada-in-world-junior-pre-tournament-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358981\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden beats Canada in World Junior pre-tournament action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LONDON \u2014 Jack Berglund scored twice in the third period, including a short-handed marker 43 seconds into the frame, as Sweden rallied to beat Canada 4-2 in a pre-World Junior Hockey Championship contest on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada, with second-period goals from Tij Iginla and Braeden Cootes, took a 2-1 lead into the third period at Canada Life Place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Victor Eklund and Ivar Stenberg also scored for Sweden, who were outshot 25-16. Jack Ivankovic was in goal for Canada, while Love Harenstam played net for Sweden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sweden had lost 2-1 to Canada on Wednesday in an exhibition contest at Kitchener Memorial Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada went 0-for-5 on the power play Saturday, while Sweden was 0-for-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Canada\u2019s final pre-tourney test is scheduled for Tuesday when the squad faces Denmark in Mankato, Minn. Canada\u2019s first game in the world junior tournament is Boxing Day against Czechia in Minneapolis, Minn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 Jack Berglund scored twice in the third period, including a short-handed marker 43 seconds into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,132644,82,146516],"class_list":{"0":"post-358981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-hockey-canada-sports-hockey-hockey-canada","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-world-juniors-sports-hockey-world-juniors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}