{"id":436347,"date":"2023-05-20T18:01:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T22:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436347"},"modified":"2023-05-20T18:01:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T22:01:05","slug":"nylander-will-not-play-for-sweden-at-the-2023-iihf","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nylander-will-not-play-for-sweden-at-the-2023-iihf\/","title":{"rendered":"Nylander will not play for Sweden at the 2023 IIHF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> player William Nylander passes on joining Sweden at the 2023 IIHF World Championship.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Regarding William Nylander&#8217;s decision not to join Sweden at the IIHF World Hockey Championship: I&#8217;m told he was reticent about arriving late and taking someone&#8217;s spot in the lineup, especially since it may have belonged to his brother Alex.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reporterchris\/status\/1659990756180852739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Swedish media wrote that the Maple Leafs forward would join the national team in Finland and Latvia, but William decided not to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Nylander was expected to be included in the Swedish squad for the playoffs at the World Championship. Therefore, he had a chance to take the place of his brother on the roster.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish winger finished his 8<sup>th<\/sup> year in the NHL as he notched career-high 40 goals and earned 87 points in 82 matches with Toronto. He scored 4 goals and had 10 points in 11 postseason matches before the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/florida-panthers\/\">Florida Panthers<\/a> eliminated his franchise in 5 clashes in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto Maple Leafs player William Nylander passes on joining Sweden at the 2023 IIHF World Championship. Regarding William Nylander&#8217;s decision not to join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":436348,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,16734,17115],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17890,19509,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The player decided not to join the national team.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436347"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436347"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}