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ARLINGTON, Va. -- Team Sweden forward Rickard Rakell remains in a Swedish hospital with an unspecified illness, according to coach Rikard Gronborg.Rakell was a late scratch for Saturdays World Cup of Hockey tuneup against Finland at Scandinavium in Gothenburg, Sweden. He did not travel with the team on Sunday.He didnt feel any better this morning, so he went back to the hospital, Gronborg said. So far we havent found anything.If Rakell is unable to rejoin his team, Sweden has until Sept. 16 to add another player to the roster.Weve got to be in contact with him [Monday] and then well see where were at, and hopefully for his own sake we know what it is because right now we dont.When asked the level of concern, Gronborg said: Obviously hes not here, so it is a concern. Its tough to say because we dont know what it is.Also, Team Sweden forward Marcus Kruger, who missed Saturdays game with an upper-body injury, traveled with the team and practiced on Sunday at Kettler Capitals Iceplex. Afterward, he said he hopes to be back in the lineup when the team faces Russia on Wednesday in another World Cup preseason game at Verizon Center.He felt great, Gronborg said. He said its a huge difference between yesterday and today, so hes going the right way. He feels pretty optimistic. Eric Staal Jersey Large . McPhee said that Ovechkins father Mikhail is in stable condition after having the surgery this week and is no longer in intensive care. "Weve told him to stay as long as necessary with your dad," he said. Ovechkin and his Russian national team were eliminated from the mens hockey tournament in Sochi on Wednesday with a 3-1 quarter-final loss to Finland. Custom Wild T-shirts . The catch: It needs a lot of money, and it needs it fast. http://www.customwildjersey.com/custom-eric-staal-jersey-large-74t.html . They were putting most of their energy into a record-setting offensive display. Cheap Custom Wild Jersey . Patrice Bergeron and Daniel Paille scored 20 seconds apart a few minutes after Stamkos was taken off the ice on a stretcher with a broken right leg, and the Bruins beat the Lightning 3-0 on Monday afternoon. Cheap Custom Wild Jersey . The showiest items on Calgarys lot were forwards Mike Cammalleri and Lee Stempniak. Both will be unrestricted free agents this summer. Superbowl winner Marshawn Lynch says Jarryd Hayne failed to make it in American football because of the cultural divide between the NRL and NFL.The code-hopping league star left the San Francisco 49ers in May in a bid to qualify for the Rio Olympics with the Fiji Rugby Sevens team.Lynch, in Australia to promote the US College Football season opener in Sydney this weekend, said on Thursday that while he was in awe of Haynes athletic prowess, there was too deep of a cultural chasm for him to cross.Hes a good athlete, Lynch said.I just think the culture of the game out here didnt translate back in the states.The recently-retired Seattle Seahawks running back is in Sydney with his old alma mater University of California ahead of the Golden Bears first game of the season against the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors at ANZ Stadium.The man known as Beast Mode made a surprise appearance at South Sydney training at Reddfern Oval, leaving several members of the Rabbitohs squad starstruck.ddddddddddddLynchs PR man Grant Vandanberg also manages Souths co-owner Russell Crowe and shocked club officials late on Wednesday by informing them Lynch would be doing a last-minute photo op.Lynch took a handful of questions from journalists, however needed Rabbitohs big man Sam Burgess to translate because he couldnt understand the Australian media accents.He said Hayne was responsible for lifting the profile of American football in the country and he owed him a debt of thanks.Id tell him thank you if he was standing here right now, Lynch said of Hayne.Because as Ive been roaming throughout the city, a lot of people have been saying `thats that American football playing guy.And I think his awareness brought it out. ' ' '