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Swedish Olympic ice hockey star concussed

Sweden's and St. Lous Blues' star Alexander Steen has been taken out of the game due to concussion, but is able to train. He will likely take to the ice for his home country at the Winter Olympics.

Published: 30 December 2013 08:50 CET
Swedish Olympic ice hockey star concussed
Alexander Steen (L). File photo: AP

St Louis Blues center Alexander Steen, who ranks second in the National Hockey League this season with 24 goals, has a concussion and was placed on injured reserve on Saturday.

Blues general manager Doug Armstrong said that Steen, a strong candidate for Sweden's 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic squad, is able to exercise with the club but no timetable has been set for his return.

Armstrong said the injury was likely a result of several hits the 29-year-old sharpshooter incurred in recent games.

Steen, the Blues' top scorer this season, has already matched his career-best total for goals in a season from the 2009-10 campaign, his first full season in St Louis after coming over in a trade from Toronto.

Steen, who has also played for Modo and Frolunda in the Swedish elite league, has 147 goals in 572 career NHL games.

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Sweden beat Swiss to win ice hockey world title in shoot-out drama

Sweden retained their world championship title with a dramatic penalty shoot-out victory over plucky Switzerland in Copenhagen on Sunday.

Published: 20 May 2018 23:33 CEST
Sweden beat Swiss to win ice hockey world title in shoot-out drama
Swiss players react after the defeat to Sweden. Photo: AFP

Filip Forsberg of the NHL's Nashville Predators scored the winning penalty as Sweden came back from 1-0 down in the shoot-out to win 2-1 following a 2-2 draw after overtime.

Surprise finalists Switzerland had been aiming for their first ever world title, while Sweden claimed an 11th crown.

Sweden had been the only unbeaten team through the group stage while Switzerland scraped into the quarter-finals with the weakest record.

But they stunned Group B winners Finland and then Canada to take their place in a third world championship final.

Five years ago they had lost to Sweden, who beat them 5-3 in the group stages too.

Switzerland twice took the lead, in each of the first two periods, but were pegged back by the favourites before the end of each stanza.

Minnesota Wild's Nino Niederreiter had given them a 16th minute lead but Gustav Nyquist of the Detroit Red Wings equalised a minute later.

On 23 minutes Timo Meier of the San Jose Sharks put the underdogs in front again, but that was wiped out by New York Ranger Mika Zibanejad on 34 minutes.

With no scores in either the third period or overtime, the final was decided by a shoot-out where Switzerland once again took the lead.

But Oliver Ekman-Larsson cancelled out Sven Andrighetto's successful strike, allowing Forsberg to become the hero.

Christopher Kreider of the Rangers scored twice as the United States thumped Canada 4-1 to take the bronze medal.

 After Kreider opened the scoring, Marc-Edouard Vlasic of the Sharks equalised.

But goals from Nashville's Nicholas Bonino and Anders Lee of the New York Islanders put the US in charge before Kreider rounded out the win.