Alex Nylander to Represent Sweden at the 2023 IIHF World Championship

Penguins forward Alex Nylander will represent Team Sweden at the 2023 IIHF World Championship, it was announced today by the Swedish Ice Hockey Association. This year's World Championship will be held from May 12-28 in Tampere, Finland and Riga, Latvia.

Nylander has played internationally for Sweden at the World Under-18 Junior Championship in 2016 and World Junior Championship in '16, '17 and '18. The forward helped Team Sweden to a silver medal at the 2016 World Under-18 Junior Championship, as well as the 2018 World Junior Championship.

In his first full season with the Penguins organization, Nylander, 25, split his season between Pittsburgh and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League. The forward appeared in nine NHL games, registering a goal, an assist and was plus-1. With WBS, Nylander set AHL career highs across the board in goals (25), assists (25), points (50) and power-play goals (12) in 55 games. His 25 goals led all WBS skaters, and his 12 power-play tallies ranked ninth in the AHL.

Below is Team Sweden's Preliminary Round Schedule. Games can be watched on NHL Network and ESPN+.

| May 12 | Germany | 1:20 PM ET | | May 14 | Austria | 1:20 PM ET | | May 15 | Finland | 1:20 PM ET | | May 18 | Hungary | 9:20 AM ET | | May 20 | France | 1:20 PM ET | | May 22 | Denmark | 9:20 AM ET | | May 23 | USA | 9:20 AM ET | | Date | Opponent | Time | | --- | --- | --- |

Nylander joins fellow Penguins teammates Nick Bonino, Drew O'Connor, Casey DeSmith (USA) and P.O Joseph (Canada) at the 2023 World Championship starting tomorrow. Click here to learn more about the Penguins participants and follow along with this year's tournament.