For Bratt, this will be the first opportunity for true best-on-best hockey he’ll play at the Men’s level, and it has been a long time coming.

“It’s something you’ve always dreamed of,” Bratt said from his home in New Jersey. “I remember after my draft when I was watching the World Cup of Hockey, and I remember just dreaming to be in that situation, to play best-on-best in a tournament. So obviously, super, super excited. Very honored to be putting on the jersey and play a best-on-best tournament. I’m looking forward to it.”

Markstrom, who is in his first year with New Jersey, now has first-hand knowledge of what it’s like to be teammates with Bratt and just how valuable he is as a teammate. It’s something Team Sweden will benefit from, he says.

“He’s a perfect player for this kind of tournament,” Markstrom said on the NHL’s media availability shortly after the announcement was made. “He’s coming to work; he’s not leaving anything to chance. He’s going to make sure that he’s going to do everything he can to be ready and help Team Sweden be as successful as possible.”

“With Bratter, you get a different view of him as a player,” Markstrom added. “You’ve played against him, and you see the skill and whatever he does on the ice, and when you become teammates with the guy, you see what he does, all the work he puts in every day, and what kind of human being he is off the ice too.”

The goalie pool for Sweden is deep. Markstrom joins Minnesota’s Filip Gustavson and Ottawa’s Linus Ullmark as the Three Crowns three goaltenders. Sweden head coach Sam Hallman has quite a choice ahead of him going into the short tournament.

“Filip has been playing unbelievable in Minnesota,” Markstrom said, sizing up the trio. “And Ullmark is a world-class goalie, coming off one year ago winning the Vezina (…) I think goaltending, our job is to push eachother. Filip, Linus, and myself, we want to be in the net and play, but only Sam is going to have that tough decision to make come game-time, but that’s part of it when you do this best-on-best tournament. We’re here to push each other, it’s a short tournament, two games, and you want to win them both to be able to play in the final. We’re here to support the team and here to wear the Three Crowns proudly.”

EDISON, N.J. — A fire at the Inman Grove Senior Living Center in Edison, New Jersey on Tuesday night left two people badly injured.

The blaze prompted a huge emergency response, as crews worked to evacuate more than 200 from the building, many with limited mobility.

Authorities said a man and a woman who were in the apartment where the fire started are now in critical condition and at least eight other residents were hospitalized for smoke inhalation.

Edison Fire Chief Andrew Toth said they initially feared the worst when one of the victims didn’t have a pulse, but, incredibly, that person was revived at the hospital.

“They started working CPR and medics intubated and everything like that, and they were able to regain a pulse,” Toth said.

The town and the Red Cross were bringing the displaced residents to a nearby hotel, while emergency crews were tasked with collecting all the residents’ crucial medications that they had to leave behind.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.  

Firefighters faced a dangerous and delicate situation

Authorities said the fire started at around 6 p.m. on the second floor, where first responders found the man and woman burned and injured.

“They didn’t even have water on the fire and they grabbed the two victims,” Toth said.

Flames and smoke spread through the building, but police and firefighters were able to get everyone else to safety as they put out the flames.

“They had people over their shoulders because, obviously, there’s an elderly clientele here,” Edison Police Chief Tom Bryan said.

Using wheelchairs and walkers, hundreds of residents were evacuated.

Sasha Haymer came to pick up her 87-year-old mother who was led out by firefighters.

“She said she got a knock on the door. It was just, ‘Come out, come out. You have to get out.’ So, she just had to leave immediately,” Haymer said.

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Drinking water in New Jersey’s capital city, Trenton, and parts of four surrounding communities was not properly tested for 14 months.

Last week, Trenton Water Works mailed a letter to its 200,000 customers in Trenton and parts of Ewing, Hamilton, Hopewell and Lawrence townships saying that one of their inspectors falsified water quality reports between October 2022 and December 2023.

Michael Walker, a spokesman for the utility, said while certain tests were not performed, there are safeguards in place.

“We do test water in our laboratory at our water filtration plant hourly, there are other tests that go on in the field,” he said.

He said a total of three TWW employees conduct water quality samples in the field, and only one of them submitted fake reports. The unnamed individual was put on leave and then fired.

Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora described the inspector, who submitted false reports, as a “rogue employee” and called the situation “outrageous.” He said steps have been taken to ensure that such incidents do not happen again.

“We’ve instituted some safeguards, including GPS tracking devices on fleet vehicles, we’re pairing employees with supervisors, we’re requiring photo documentation of sample sights,” he said.

He said many of the water samples taken by TWW during the period in question were considered incomplete and deemed invalid by the Department of Environmental Protection.