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Wings At The World Championship And The Swedes On Velleno

05/23/2023 at 7:16am EDT

from Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press,

A pair of Detroit Red Wings forwards helped Sweden to another victory at the Ice Hockey World Championship, while Canada lost for a second straight day.

Lucas Raymond had a goal and an assist and Jonatan Berggren had an assist Monday in Sweden's 4-1 victory over Scandinavian rival Denmark at Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland.

In World Championship action at Riga Arena in Riga, Latvia, Norway beat Canada 3-2 in a shootout. Canada was handed its first loss of the tournament on Saturday, falling 3-2 to Switzerland. The Wings' only player on team Canada, forward Joe Veleno, was handed a five-game suspension Sunday for violating rule 49 (kicking) during Saturday's game and will miss the rest of the tournament.

Canada is in third place in the Group B standings with 12 points. The Canadians wrap up the preliminary round Tuesday with a game against Czechia, which is in second place thanks partly to Red Wings forward Dominik Kubalik, who has a tournament-best eight goals among 12 points.

The Swedes are in second place in Group A, one point behind the U.S. because one of Sweden's victories came in a shootout. The Swedes and Americans meet Tuesday in Tampere to settle first place heading into the quarterfinals.

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from Bob Duff of Detroit Hockey Now,

Detroit Red Wings forward Lucas Raymond has spoken to teammate Joe Veleno since the latter was issued a suspension for the remainder of the IIHF World Championship.

“I spoke to him on the phone after it happened,” Raymond told Aftonbladet.se “What we said stays between us.”...

Both Raymond and Detroit forward Jonatan Berggren are playing for Sweden in the tourney and they’ve seen footage of what Veleno did.

“What happened, happened,” Raymond said. “He has to answer for that.

“I have seen and followed it. I can’t say much about it. It’s a sad situation. It was a suspension and I don’t have much more to say about it either.”...

“As I know him, he is a nice guy” Raymond said. “I like him very much, he is a kind friend. We have fun together and I enjoy being with him in Detroit.”

Berggren echoed those sentiments.

“I don’t have much to say (about the incident),” Berggren told Expressen.se. “He’s a really nice guy, so I don’t know.”

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Paul

USA/Sweden starts at 9am on the NHL Network and TSN.

Paul

I would post this, but there are graphs, charts, etc.

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