Preliminary play in men’s hockey opens at the Olympics on Wednesday with a pair of games in Milan: Finland and Slovakia at 10:40 a.m. Eastern, followed by Sweden and Italy at 3:10 p.m.
Erik Karlsson has been skating on Sweden’s third defense pairing alongside Philip Broberg, and Rickard Rakell has been on what is either Sweden’s second or third line centered by Mika Zibanejad.