{"id":477197,"date":"2026-02-19T05:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477197\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T05:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T05:09:09","slug":"penguins-erik-karlsson-rickard-rakell-eliminated-as-sweden-loses-to-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/477197\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins\u2019 Erik Karlsson, Rickard Rakell eliminated as Sweden loses to United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

A look at how members of the Pittsburgh Penguins are performing in the Winter Olympics:<\/p>\n

Penguins defenseman Erik Karlsson and forward Rickard Rakell were each eliminated from the tournament as Sweden lost in overtime to the United States, 2-1<\/a>, during a quarterfinal game at the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena in Milan on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Opening the contest on the right side of the third pairing, Karlsson was held without a point. Logging 27:26 of ice time on 31 shifts, Karlsson had five shots.<\/p>\n

In five games during the tournament, Karlsson recorded five assists and averaged 21:06 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n

Rakell also went scoreless in Thursday\u2019s contests. Beginning play on the right wing of the third line, Rakell clocked 9:53 of ice time on 13 shifts and tabulated one shot.<\/p>\n

Throughout the tournament, Rakell had one assist in five games and averaged 11:56 of ice time per contest.<\/p>\n

Highlights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sweden finished in seventh place in the 12-team tournament.<\/p>\n

Penguins forward Sidney Crosby suffered an undisclosed injury while skating for Canada in a 4-3 overtime win against Czechia<\/a> at the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena.<\/p>\n

Crosby left the contest during the second period. Canada coach Jon Cooper indicated Crosby was being evaluated but did not provide a substantive update on his status.<\/p>\n

Before leaving the contest, Crosby logged 5:55 of ice time on nine shifts and did not record a point on two shots after opening play as center of the third line.<\/p>\n

Highlights:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s next game will be against Finland in the semifinal round on Friday, 10:40 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A look at how members of the Pittsburgh Penguins are performing in the Winter Olympics: Penguins defenseman Erik…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-477197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477197","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=477197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}