STOCKHOLM -- Iceburgh kicked its feet up on a shelf and sat back as it took over the video game controller, the Florida Panthers battling the Edmonton Oilers in EA Sports’ NHL 25, a pediatric cancer patient in the other chair. Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Erik Karlsson grabbed a ping pong paddle and found a challenger; Penguins forward Rickard Rakell gave out fist bumps and signed hockey cards in silver sharpie.

Karlsson, Rakell and Iceburgh spent Thursday afternoon at the cancer center at Karolinska University Hospital -- as Gnash and Nashville Predators forwards Filip Forsberg and Ryan O'Reilly had the day before -- commemorating Hockey Fights Cancer Month, talking and playing with cancer patients while in Stockholm for the 2025 NHL Global Series Sweden presented by Fastenal.

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