{"id":457992,"date":"2026-02-14T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/457992\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:56:12","slug":"vancouver-canucks-elias-pettersson-scores-twice-against-slovakia-as-sweden-wins-5-3-nhl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/457992\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks&#8217; Elias Pettersson Scores Twice Against Slovakia as Sweden Wins 5-3 | NHL News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/team-sweden.jpg\" alt=\"Vancouver Canucks' Elias Pettersson Scores Twice Against Slovakia as Sweden Wins 5-3\" title=\"Team Sweden at their practice session (Via Getty Images)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Team Sweden at their practice session (Via Getty Images) Elias Pettersson finally found his scoring touch at the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics, scoring twice in Sweden&#8217;s 5-3 victory over Slovakia on Saturday. The Vancouver Canucks center had faced criticism entering the tournament after a difficult NHL season. He answered with goals at 14:29 of the second period and 7:57 of the third period to help Sweden dominate at Santagiulia Arena. Lucas Raymond led all scorers with three points on a goal and two assists. Adrian Kempe added a goal and an assist, while Jacob Markstrom made 29 saves in his first start of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Slovakia suffers its first defeat after getting back-to-back wins at Milan<\/p>\n<p>Joel Eriksson Ek gave Sweden a 1-0 lead with a shorthanded goal at 7:17 of the first period. He broke up a play inside his own blue line and created a two-on-one with Kempe before jamming home the rebound after Samuel Hlavaj made the initial save.Juraj Slafkovsky tied it 1-1 at 8:59 with his third goal in as many games. The Montreal Canadiens forward has been Slovakia&#8217;s most dangerous offensive weapon throughout the preliminary round. Kempe restored Sweden&#8217;s lead early in the second period with a power-play one-timer just five seconds into the man advantage. Martin Gernat pulled Slovakia even at 2-2 before Pettersson broke the tie for good. Filip Forsberg found Pettersson in the left faceoff circle at 14:29 of the second period. The Canucks center fired the puck through Hlavaj&#8217;s five-hole to make it 3-2 and give Sweden control of the game. Raymond set up Pettersson&#8217;s second goal with a beautiful cross-ice pass in the third period. The play made it 4-2 and effectively sealed the victory for Sweden.Raymond then added his own highlight-reel goal at 11:38, turning defender Simon Nemec inside out before beating Hlavaj in tight to make it 5-2. Dalibor Dvorsky scored a late power-play goal with 39 seconds remaining to cut the deficit to 5-3.Sweden outshot Slovakia 51-32, but both teams finished preliminary round play with identical 2-0-1-0 records and six points. Slovakia won Group B based on goal differential and earned a bye directly into the quarterfinals.Sweden will enter the qualification playoff round on Tuesday seeking to advance to the quarterfinals. The victory provides momentum after Friday&#8217;s disappointing 4-1 loss to Finland threatened to derail their tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Sweden at their practice session (Via Getty Images) Elias Pettersson finally found his scoring touch at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[366,894,2318,5,181,512,976,596,55601,4,55600,19665,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-457992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-adrian-kempe","9":"tag-canucks","10":"tag-elias-pettersson","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hockey-news","13":"tag-jacob-markstrom","14":"tag-juraj-slafkovsky","15":"tag-lucas-raymond","16":"tag-milano-cortina-2026-olympics","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-slovakia-national-hockey-team","19":"tag-sweden-national-hockey-team","20":"tag-vancouver","21":"tag-vancouver-canucks","22":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116070042457632928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}