{"id":671911,"date":"2026-05-15T20:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671911\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:30:19","slug":"worlds-nurse-has-two-assists-ekholm-scores-for-sweden-in-canadas-5-3-opening-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/671911\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLDS: Nurse has two assists, Ekholm scores for Sweden in Canada&#8217;s 5-3 opening victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRIBOURG, SUI \u2013 Darnell Nurse had two assists, while Mattias Ekholm factored in for Team Sweden with a goal on Friday afternoon as Team Canada opened their account in Group B at the 2026 IIHF World Championship with an opening 5-3 victory at BCF Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Making his first appearance back at Worlds since 2019, Nurse helped give Canada the early lead with his first helper on John\u00a0Tavares&#8217; opening marker 2:21 into the first period.<\/p>\n<p>The defenceman jumped into an odd-man rush that came off a turnover by the Swedes in Canada&#8217;s zone before taking a\u00a0pass from Robert Thomas and finding John Tavares in the left circle with his follow-up feed that he converted inside the post for the 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Canada held a two-goal advantage through 20 minutes before Sweden battled back to make it 3-3 in the second, with Ekholm scoring on a quick point shot that went in off the post past netminder Jet Greaves only\u00a077 seconds after former Oilers forward Dylan Holloway gave Canada back the lead at 3-2 with over five minutes left in the frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIBOURG, SUI \u2013 Darnell Nurse had two assists, while Mattias Ekholm factored in for Team Sweden with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-671911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671911","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=671911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}