{"id":374058,"date":"2025-12-29T00:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374058\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T00:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T00:02:06","slug":"world-junior-championship-roundup-sweden-rallies-past-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/374058\/","title":{"rendered":"World Junior Championship roundup: Sweden rallies past Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden 4, Switzerland 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/lucas-pettersson-8484767\" title=\"Lucas Pettersson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas Pettersson<\/a> (Anaheim Ducks) scored two goals in the third period for Sweden, which rallied past Switzerland in Group A preliminary-round action at Grand Casino Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Love Harenstam (St. Louis Blues) made 28 saves for Sweden (2-0-0-0).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/leon-muggli-8484772\" title=\"Leon Muggli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leon Muggli<\/a> (Washington Capitals) had two assists, and Elijah Neuenschwander (Ducks) made 26 saves for Switzerland (0-0-0-2), which lost 2-1 to the United States on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Nilson (Ducks) gave Sweden a 1-0 lead just 53 seconds into the first period on a snap shot at the left post.<\/p>\n<p>Beni Waidacher (2026 NHL Draft eligible) tied it 1-1 at 14:27.<\/p>\n<p>Lars Steiner, a C-rated skater on NHL Central Scouting&#8217;s preliminary players to watch list, gave Switzerland a 2-1 lead on a wrist shot from the right face-off circle at 18:22 of the second period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of people don&#8217;t expect us to play the way that we played the last two games (against Sweden and USA),&#8221; Steiner said on Switzerland&#8217;s game. &#8220;I think we showed that we can play with the big nations, but we&#8217;re still a little step behind. But we showed we can do it and we&#8217;ve just got to show it in the last two games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Viggo Bjorck, an A-rated skater on NHL Central Scouting&#8217;s preliminary players to watch list, tied it 2-2 with a snap shot from the high slot 57 seconds into the third period.<\/p>\n<p>Pettersson gave Sweden a 3-2 lead at 6:28 on a snap shot from low in the right face-off circle that deflected off the right arm of Neuenschwander.<\/p>\n<p>Pettersson scored an empty net goal at 19:13 for the 4-2 final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s been a bit up and down. We have better periods and then less better periods, but we have six points,&#8221; Sweden captain Jack Berglund (Philadelphia Flyers) said of his thoughts after two games. &#8220;Can&#8217;t get more and we have the third period here, (which) is something we have to continue with because I thought it was a really good period. And like I said, a win is a win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweden will play Germany on Monday (1 p.m. ET; NHLN, TSN) before Switzerland faces Germany (2 p.m. ET; NHLN, TSN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sweden 4, Switzerland 2: Lucas Pettersson (Anaheim Ducks) scored two goals in the third period for Sweden, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-374058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374058","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=374058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}