Where: Bell Centre, Montreal.
When: 02.00, Thursday night.
What: Four Nations.
TV/Radio: TV6/Viaplay and P4.
The snack: Canada's first power play lineup as seen in practice – Cale Makar, Connor McDavid, Sidney Crosby, Nathan MacKinnon, and Sam Reinhart. Can it be the most star-studded since Wayne Gretzky's and Mario Lemieux's days – or ever?
The Swedish defense wonder: A concept that has been talked about for years and just keeps going. A lineup that even makes usually so confident Canadians become reverent.
Blue-yellow uphill climb: Tre Kronor have never managed to win any of the five Canada Cup and three World Cup tournaments played throughout history. A final spot against Canada in 1984 is the best result.
So the tournament continues for Tre Kronor: Saturday: Finland (19.00, Bell Centre). Night against Tuesday, February 18: USA (02.00, TD Garden, Boston). Night against Friday, February 21: possible final (02.00, TD Garden).
Canada
Goalkeepers: 50 Jordan Binnington, 33 Adin Hill, 35 Sam Montembeault.
Defensemen: 8 Cale Makar, 44 Josh Morrissey, 55 Colton Parayko, 89 Drew Doughty, 6 Travis Sanheim, 27 Shea Theodore, 5 Devon Toews.
Forwards: 9 Sam Bennett, 71 Anthony Cirelli, 87 Sidney Crosby, 38 Brandon Hagel, 24 Seth Jarvis, 11 Travis Konecny, 29 Nathan MacKinnon, 63 Brad Marchand, 16 Mitch Marner, 97 Connor McDavid, 21 Brayden Point, 13 Sam Reinhart, 61 Mark Stone.
Sweden
Goalkeepers: 30 Samuel Ersson, 32 Filip Gustavsson, 35 Linus Ullmark.
Defense pairs: 77 Victor Hedman, 25 Jonas Brodin – 14 Mattias Ekholm, 65 Erik Karlsson – 42 Gustav Forsling, 26 Rasmus Dahlin – 4 Rasmus Andersson.
Lines: 67 Rickard Rakell, 93 Mika Zibanejad, 88 William Nylander – 9 Filip Forsberg, 40 Elias Pettersson, 10 Adrian Kempe – 23 Lucas Raymond, 20 Joel Eriksson Ek, 63 Jesper Bratt – 12 Gustav Nyquist, 28 Elias Lindholm, 33 Viktor Arvidsson – 91 Leo Carlsson.
