Russian lineup in Kloten

[wilka91*]

Russia's lineup from the first 2 practices :


Green
SAMSONOV – V. KOZLOV – KOVALEV
KASPARAITIS – GONCHAR

Red
KVASHA – YASHIN – OVECHKIN, PETROV
TVERDOVSKY – VISHNEVSKI

White
KOVALCHUK – DATSYUK – ZUBRUS, KOVALENKO
KHAVANOV – VOLCHENKOV

Blue
FROLOV – CHUBAROV – AFINOGENOV, AFANASENKOV
MARKOV – KALININ

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[Alfons]

Why are they playing Ovechkin with Chubarov and Afinogenov? Think they should have a good center for Ovechkin for example Yashin or Datsyuk. I only like the line Samsonov - Kozlov - Kovalev. I´d rather see

Samsonov-Yashin-Kovalev
Kovalchuk-Kozlov-Kvasha
Ovechkin-Datsyuk-Frolov/Zherdev
Zubrus-Chubarov-Kovalenko/Frolov

 

[arrbez]

yeah, im kinda curious as to why yashin is down on the 4th line...seems like a bit of a waste of his talents down there, especially when the team has already lost a couple important skill players up front

 

[Chainshot]

Here are the lines that skated at Russia's first practice, yesterday in Kloten, Switzerland :

Kovalchuk - Datsyuk - Zubrus
Samsonov - Kozlov - Kovalev
Ovechkin - Chubarov - Afinogenov
Kvasha - Yashin - Petrov
Afanasenkov

Frolov took part in the practice only partially because he arrived early in the morning.
Kovalenko hasn't arrived yet.

Any info on the defense pairings? Thanks!

 

[rival]

Why are they playing Ovechkin with Chubarov and Afinogenov?

Dynamo connections. The coach knows all 3 players very well.

 

[wilka91*]

Here is the full lineup from the 1st 2 days of training camp.
The team split into 4 teams of 5 or 6 players, competing against each other.

The best unit proved to be Samsonov, Kozlov and Kovalev, followed by Yashin's line.

SAMSONOV – V. KOZLOV – KOVALEV
KVASHA – YASHIN – OVECHKIN, PETROV
KOVALCHUK – DATSYUK – ZUBRUS, KOVALENKO
FROLOV – CHUBAROV – AFINOGENOV, AFANASENKOV

KASPARAITIS – GONCHAR
TVERDOVSKY – VISHNEVSKI
KHAVANOV – VOLCHENKOV
MARKOV – KALININ

 

[Gainey23]

Kovalchuk - Datsyuk - Zubrus
Samsonov - Kozlov - Kovalev
Ovechkin - Chubarov - Afinogenov
Kvasha - Yashin - Petrov
Afanasenkov

scary how much of a hockey dork i've become... these lines are almost identical to the ones i set up on PS2 (having guessed the Ovechkin line is highly peculiar...they were basically my 'young Dynamo line'..
and i had Kovalev/Zubrus flip flopped..

 

[Alfons]

So Datsyuk/Kovalchuk didn´t work that well? It would be a waste not to get the best out of them, maybe they will find eachother eventually, though I didn´t think they played very well toghter in the World Championchip (at least compared to what you would expekt)

 

[Markov]

What's happening with the goaltending situation?

Who are the guys in camp?

 

[SopelFan*]

FROLOV – CHUBAROV – AFINOGENOV

That line looks pretty good. I'm curious to see how Chubarov plays when reunited with Afinogenov.

 

[Buya89]

I hope datsyuk and Kovalchuk Click!