{"id":462028,"date":"2026-02-11T11:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462028\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:06:16","slug":"sweden-not-overdoing-it-with-william-nylander-ahead-of-2026-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462028\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden not overdoing it with William Nylander ahead of 2026 Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILAN \u2014 Team Sweden is taking a cautionary approach with William Nylander.<\/p>\n

The Maple Leafs forward was absent from Sweden\u2019s practice at Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena on Tuesday, which head coach Sam Hallam described as \u201ca maintenance thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s done two full practices with us and felt after [Monday] a bit sore,\u201d Hallam said after stepping off the ice. \u201cJust give him an extra day and then we\u2019ll see for [Wednesday night against Italy]. If he\u2019s ready to go or it\u2019s gonna be a pretty late situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TorontoMaple Leafs right wing William Nylander controls the puck against the Flames during the third period at Scotiabank Saddledome. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

After missing seven straight games with a groin injury in January, Nylander competed in just three games for Toronto before the Olympic break. <\/p>\n

The maintenance day is presumably to ensure Nylander doesn\u2019t overdo it before the real competition begins after the round-robin format.<\/p>\n

Without Nylander, Filip Forsberg skated in his place next to Adrian Kempe and Joel Eriksson Ek.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot overly concerned at all,\u201d Hallam said. \u201cHe\u2019s been looking pretty sharp and good on the ice for two days. Thought that we\u2019d give him today. It\u2019s short term, but we\u2019re still in the beginning of it, and bigger games coming up. So let\u2019s keep our priorities and focus there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TorontoMaple Leafs right wing William Nylander during the third period against the Flames at Scotiabank Saddledome. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

Sweden\u2019s Rasmus Andersson joked that it was \u201cboring\u201d for the writers that he was traded from Calgary to Vegas before going to the Olympics. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a whirlwind few weeks for the defenseman, whose protracted trade saga ended just a few weeks ago when the Golden Knights dealt Zach Whitecloud, a first-round pick, a second-round pick and prospect Abram Wiebe to the Flames for his services.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy family is still in Calgary and obviously I don\u2019t get to see them for a little while,\u201d Andersson said. \u201cI\u2019m fortunate enough that my wife is flying here in a couple of days. It sucks that I can\u2019t see my kids for about six weeks. That part is tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hallam did not name his goaltender for Sweden\u2019s opener on Wednesday against Italy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat question\u2019s been up there pretty much all year, and I\u2019ve said nevertheless which three goalies we\u2019re going to pick to this group and to the Olympic squad, I\u2019m confident playing either one of them,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s still the feeling, but of course we have made our decision. We\u2019re not going to announce that until [Wednesday].<\/p>\n

Team USA and Team Canada were both off Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The Canadians were spotted attending short-track speed skating, where their country won silver in the mixed team relay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014 Team Sweden is taking a cautionary approach with William Nylander. The Maple Leafs forward was absent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99,6804,4278,58926,211565],"class_list":{"0":"post-462028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-sweden","11":"tag-william-nylander","12":"tag-winter-olympics","13":"tag-winter-olympics-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}