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Tuesday FTB: How Swede it is

He’s over in Slovakia, taking over for Team Sweden and leading them in a way that none of their other forwards are. Everyone’s fawned over Elias Pettersson for a full season, but he’s been moved off of the 1C position to being a winger on a lower line. Nylander, meanwhile, is playing on his opposite wing and is, ho hum, leading the tournament in scoring AND in plus-minus!

Now, we can nitpick. A lot of those points have come against Italy and Norway, not exactly teams we would expect to realistically compete against Sweden’s tier.