{"id":475967,"date":"2026-02-15T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475967\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:27:09","slug":"pettersson-scores-twice-team-sweden-defeats-slovakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/475967\/","title":{"rendered":"Pettersson scores twice, Team Sweden defeats Slovakia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joel Eriksson Ek<\/a> gave Sweden a 1-0 lead with a short-handed goal at 7:17 of the first period. He broke up a play inside his own blue line and created a 2-on-1 the other way before passing to Kempe. Hlavaj stopped the initial shot, but Eriksson Ek crashed the net and jammed home the rebound.<\/p>\n

Slafkovsky tied it 1-1 for Slovakia at 8:59 of the first period, his third goal in as many games. A four-pass sequence around the offensive zone ended when Simon Nemec<\/a> passed to Slafkovsky by the side boards to the right of the goalie. The one-timer beat Markstrom clean.<\/p>\n

The Montreal Canadiens forward was taken No. 1 in the 2022 NHL Draft; Nemec, a defenseman, was selected No. 2 by the New Jersey Devils.<\/p>\n

Slafkovsky has six points (three goals, three assists) in three games here. He is tied for the tournament scoring lead with Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid<\/a> of Team Canada, who leads the NHL with 96 points (34 goals, 62 assists).<\/p>\n

Slafkovsky, who has 45 points (21 goals, 24 assists) in 57 games for Montreal, is the fourth player to have five or more points for Slovakia in the preliminary round of an Olympics with NHL involvement, joining Marian Hossa<\/a> (nine points), Pavol Demitra (seven) and Marian Gaborik<\/a> (six). Each happened during the five-game round robin in 2006.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m lucky to be there and [McDavid] deserves it,\u201d Slafkovsky said, laughing.<\/p>\n

Adrian Kempe<\/a> made it 2-1 on a power play at 7:06 of the second when he hammered home a slap shot five seconds after Slovakia\u2019s Pavol Regenda<\/a> took a penalty for kneeing.<\/p>\n

Gernat tied it 2-2 for Slovakia at 9:48, pouncing on a rebound before Markstrom could recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joel Eriksson Ek gave Sweden a 1-0 lead with a short-handed goal at 7:17 of the first period.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-475967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475967","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=475967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}