Russia National Team discussion thread

Caser

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Suddenly it has been announced that the B-team will play Vs. South Korea on 18-th and 19-th of March.

GK
Andrei Kareyev
Igor Ustinskiy
Ilya Yezhov

D
Fyodor Belyakov
Yaroslav Dyblenko
Gleb Koryagin
Vadim Kudako
Vladislav Naumov
Dmitriy Ogurtsov
Vladislav Provolnev
Alexei Vasilevskiy

FW
Anatoliy Golyshev
Kirill Kapustin
Viktor Komarov
Vyacheslav Leshchenko
Konstantin Okulov
Stepan Sannikov
Kirill Semyonov
Maxim Shalunov
Anton Shenfeld
Sergei Shumakov
Vladislav Ushenin
Vyacheslav Ushenin

Mikhail Vorobyov replaced Shalunov, who will miss those games due to an injury.
 

Caser

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Russia B-team will play games Vs. Latvia on 1st and 2nd of April:

GK
Vasiliy Demchenko
Vladislav Gross
Ilya Sorokin

D
Zakhar Arzamastsev
Artyom Blazhiyevskiy
Yaroslav Dyblenko
Bogdan Kiselevich
Andrei Mironov
Mikhail Naumenkov
Igor Ozhiganov
Vladislav Provolnev

FW
Sergei Andronov
Anton Burdasov
Anatoliy Golyshev
Maxim Karpov
Kirill Kaprizov
Viktor Komarov
Vyacheslav Leshchenko
Maxim Mamin
Valeriy Nichushkin
Stepan Sannikov
Maxim Shalunov
Sergei Shumakov
Andrei Svetlakov
Ivan Telegin
Mikhail Vorobyov
 

Caser

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Datsyuk had a knee surgery, so no guarantee he will be back until the WC.

On the other side, as at least one Metropolitan division will be out after the first round of PO, it is likely that we will have either Malkin or Bob.
 

Alessandro Seren Rosso

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I would agree if that would be anyone else, but it is Datsyuk - his locker room presence is worth at least as much as his on-ice presence.

The "problem" is that he is a center. We need to get our centers to actually play and gather experience.
I enjoy when our team wins, but I am not happy about the way the team has been ruled in the latest few years. I think that some wins were necessary (especially the Bykov's era ones to get players back) for a number of reasons, but I don't like the policy of "let's just wait for a tired Ovechkin".
I have the utmost respect for guys like Ovechkin and Malkin, but what did they bring to our teams? Except when they were with the teams since the start, they haven't really added much.
And the IIHF is redicolous to let teams adding players until the last game, new players should be called max after 2-3 games.
 

Caser

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B-team roster for the Eurochallenge games Vs France:

GK
Emil Garipov
Andrei Kareyev
Ilya Sorokin

D
Zakhar Arzamastsev
Artyom Blazhiyevskiy
Yaroslav Dyblenko
Vladislav Gavrikov
Bogdan Kiselevich
Ilya Lyubushkin
Andrei Mironov
Mikhail Naumenkov
Igor Ozhiganov

FW
Sergei Andronov
Anton Burdasov
Anatoliy Golyshev
Yegor Korshkov
Pavel Kraskovskiy
Maxim Mamin
Valeriy Nichushkin
Stepan Sannikov
Maxim Shalunov
Sergei Shumakov
Andrei Svetlakov
Ivan Telegin
Vladimir Tkachyov (1993 born)

Kaprizov is still injured.
 

Caser

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B-team roster for the Eurochallenge games Vs Switzerland:

GK
Emil Garipov
Andrei Kareyev
Ilya Sorokin

D
Zakhar Arzamastsev
Maxim Chudinov
Vladislav Gavrikov
Bogdan Kiselevich
Ilya Lyubushkin
Andrei Mironov
Mikhail Naumenkov
Igor Ozhiganov
Ivan Provorov

FW
Sergei Andronov
Anton Burdasov
Anatoliy Golyshev
Roman Lyubimov
Maxim Mamin
Vladislav Namestnikov
Valeriy Nichushkin
Stepan Sannikov
Maxim Shalunov
Sergei Shumakov
Andrei Svetlakov
Ivan Telegin
Vladimir Tkachyov (1993 born)
 

Caser

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B-team roster for games Vs Norway and Slovenia (27-29th of April):

GK
Andrei Filonenko
Igor Shestyorkin
Igor Ustinskiy

D
Zakhar Arzamastsev
Artyom Blazhiyevskiy
Nikita Cherepanov
Maxim Chudinov
Mikhail Naumenkov
Igor Ozhiganov
Rushan Rafikov
Yegor Rykov
Artyom Sergeyev

FW
Alexandr Barabanov
Alexandr Dergachyov
Artyom Ilyenko
Kirill Kaprizov
Yegor Korshkov
Pavel Kraskovskiy
Maxim Mamin
Vyacheslav Osnovin
Alexandr Polunin
Stepan Sannikov
Maxim Shalunov
Sergei Shumakov
Mikhail Vorobyov
 

Caser

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National team roster for the Czech Hockey Games:

GK
Andrei Kareyev
Ilya Sorokin
Andrei Vasilevskiy

D
Viktor Antipin
Anton Belov
Alexei Bereglazov
Vladislav Gavrikov
Bogdan Kiselevich
Andrei Mironov
Ivan Provorov
Artyom Zub
Andrei Zubarev

FW
Sergei Andronov
Anton Burdasov
Yevgeniy Dadonov
Anatoliy Golyshev
Nikita Gusev
Nikita Kucherov
Roman Lyubimov
Sergei Mozyakin
Vladislav Namestnikov
Valeriy Nichushkin
Sergei Plotnikov
Vadim Shipachyov
Andrei Svetlakov
Ivan Telegin
Vladimir Tkachyov
 

Caser

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So, I guess we will have something like this:

Gusev-Namestnikov-Kucherov
Panarin-Shipachyov-Dadonov
Mozyakin-Tkachyov-x
x-x-Telegin (PK/grinder line)

So yeah, not easy to find room for Kaprizov.
 

Caser

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Russia B-team roster for the Sochi Hockey Open (5th to 9th of August):

GK
Igor Shestyorkin
Vladislav Sukhachyov
Kirill Ustimenko

D
Zakhar Arzamastsev
Maxim Chudinov
Dinar Khafizullin
Ilya Lyubushkin
Mikhail Naumenkov
Nikita Nesterov
Rushan Rafikov
Nikita Tryamkin

FW
Andrei Altybarmakyan
Artyom Fyodorov
Stanislav Galiev
Mikhail Grigorenko
Ilya Kablukov
Sergei Kalinin
Kirill Kaprizov
Yevgeniy Ketov
Yegor Korshkov
Pavel Kraskovskiy
Roman Lyubimov
Alexander Polunin
Vladimir Tkachyov (1993 born)
 

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