The Carolina Hurricanes are out of the playoffs - again - and that means that Canes players are headed overseas - again - to participate in the 2017 IIHF World Championship in Paris and Cologne, Germany.
Seven Hurricanes are going to the tournament, which begins May 5, including four who were selected to play for Sweden. Three of the four, Victor Rask, Elias Lindholm and Joakim Nordstrom, have represented Sweden at the World Junior Hockey Championship in the past, but this is their first callup to the senior side. Eddie Lack, meanwhile, will pull on the tre kronor for the first time in his career at any level.