New Jersey Devils Jesper Bratt and Team Sweden will face Team Canada on Wednesday night.
On Wednesday night, the 4 Nations Face-Off will begin, and New Jersey Devils forward Jesper Bratt will skate onto the ice at Bell Centre in Montreal, donning Sweden's colors.
The tournament opens with Team Sweden playing Team Canada at 8:00 P.M. The game can be viewed on TNT, truTV, Max (United States), Sportsnet, and TVA Sports (Canada).
Bratt will start on a line with Joel Eriksson Ek (Minnesota Wild) and Lucas Raymond (Detroit Red Wings) and play on Sweden's second power play unit with Erik Karlsson (Pittsburgh Penguins), Elias Petterson (Vancouver Canucks), Filip Forsberg (Nashville Predators) and Rickard Rakell (Pittsburgh Penguins).
"It is such a short tournament, so they are trying to get you in a position you are used to from the regular season and from your club team," Bratt said to NJD.TV. "They obviously wanted to use the strength, good defensive play, and net-front presence of Joel Eriksson Ek. He is one of the best guys in the league of, being a tough center, a two-way player that really does a great job in front of the net, too. Me and (Lucas) Raymond can use our speed, our skill through the neutral zone and create a lot of chances to the O-Zone kind of similar to what me and Jack do. It is an exciting line."
Bratt entered the tournament on an eight-game point streak with the Devils, earning 64 points (17 goals, 47 assists) in 57 games.
Below is everything you need to know about the 4 Nations Face-Off.
4-Nations Format
All seven games in the 4 Nations Face-Off will be played in accordance with NHL rules, with the exception of overtime, which will be 10 minutes instead of five for round-robin games.
Each team will play three round-robin games under the following points system: three points for a win in regulation, two points for a win in overtime/shootout, one point for a loss in overtime/shootout, and zero points for a loss in regulation.
The two teams with the best round-robin record will advance to a one-game final, which will feature the overtime format of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
A tie in the standings between two teams shall be decided by the head-to-head result between those two tied teams.
Team Sweden's Projected Lineup
William Nylander - Mika Zibanejad - Rickard Rakell
Adrian Kempe - Elias Pettersson - Filip Forsberg
Jesper Bratt - Joel Eriksson Ek - Lucas Raymond
Gustav Nyquist - Elias Lindholm - Viktor Arvidsson
Victor Hedman - Jonas Brodin
Mattias Ekholm - Erik Karlsson
Rasmus Dahlin - Rasmus Andersson
Filip Gustavsson
#NHLStat Packs
Courtesy of NHL Public Relations
- Samuel Ersson (Jan. 29) and Rickard Rakell (Feb. 4) were named to the roster as replacements for the injured Jacob Markstrom and William Karlsson, respectively.
- Sweden has reached the playoff round in six consecutive NHL International Tournaments dating to the 1984 Canada Cup. Canada is the only other nation to accomplish the feat during that stretch.
- 10% of NHL players in 2024-25 are Swedish, the most of any European country and third overall behind Canada (41%) and the United States (29%).
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