2018 Roster Predictions

[TheMachiavelli*]

This is how I see Russia in 2018:

Ovechkin-Malkin-Kuznetsov
Prohorkin-Shipachev-Radulov
Yakupov-Burmistrov-Nichushkin
Panarin-Malikhin-Tikhonov
Kovalchuk-Karpov

Chudinov-Zubarev
Kiselevich-Nikulin
Zaitsev-Zadorov
Belov-Orlov
Mironov

Varlamov
Bobrovsky
Galimov

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[Flynn84]

Varlamov 88
Bobrovsky 88
Vasilevskiy 94
Garipov 91

Marchenko 92
Zadorov 95
Voynov 90
Orlov 91
Kulikov 90
Zaitsev 91
Chudinov 90
Belov 86

Ovechkin 85
Malkin 86
Kuznetsov 92
Tarasenko 91
Radulov 86
Prokhorkin 93
Nichushkin 95
Anisimov 88
Burmistrov 91
Yakupov 93
Kucherov 93
Karpov 91
Yakimov 94
Sokolov 98
Namestnikov 92
Petrov 90


Varlamov
Bobrovsky
Vasilevskiy

Zadorov - Voynov
Marchenko - Chudinov
Orlov - Belov
Kulikov - Zaytsev

Kucherov - Malkin - Radulov
Nichushkin - Kuznetsov - Tarasenko
Ovechkin - Prokhorkin - Yakupov
Burmistrov - Yakimov - Karpov
Anisimov, Sokolov

 

[kp61c]

This is how I see Russia in 2018:

Ovechkin-Malkin-Kuznetsov
Prohorkin-Shipachev-Radulov
Yakupov-Burmistrov-Nichushkin
Panarin-Malikhin-Tikhonov
Kovalchuk-Karpov

Chudinov-Zubarev
Kiselevich-Nikulin
Zaitsev-Zadorov
Belov-Orlov
Mironov

Varlamov
Bobrovsky
Galimov

tarasenko will be retired by then
tikhonov is ahead of kucherov? i don't think so. and i'd find a spot for antipin on the defense. the rest is spot on

 

[Caser]

2018 is too far, but...

Let's say something like this:

Ovechkin-Malkin-Semin
Radulov-Kuznetsov-Tarasenko
Prokhorkin-Namestnikov-Kucherov
Kulemin-Anisimov-Nichushkin
Kokarev, Tikhonov

Emelin-Voynov
Zadorov-Orlov
Marchenko-Zaitsev
Chudinov-Kiselevich

Varlamov
Bobrovsky
Vasilevskiy

 

[Fantomas]

My attempt, though I have not thought about this too long.

Evgeni Kuznetsov - Evgeni Malkin - Vladimir Tarasenko
Alexander Ovechkin - Vladislav Namestnikov - Nikita Kucherov
Nikolai Prokhorkin - Artem Anisimov - Valeri Nichushkin
Ivan Barbashev - Bogdan Yakimov - Artemy Panarin
Extras: Nail Yakupov, Alex Burmistrov

Nikita Zadorov - Slava Voynov
Maxim Chudinov - Dmitri Orlov
Alexei Marchenko - Andrei Mironov
Dmitri Kulikov - Bogdan Kiselevich

Semyon Varlamov - Andrei Vasilevski - Anton Khudobin

Pretty sure Emelin's body will go the way of Volchenkov by 2018. I like Khudobin more than Bobrovsky long term.

 

[Atas2000]

Damn strange ones here.

 

[Raptor1990]

Varlamov 88
Bobrovsky 88
Vasilevskiy 94
Garipov 91

Marchenko 92
Zadorov 95
Voynov 90
Orlov 91
Kulikov 90
Zaitsev 91
Chudinov 90




Kuznetsov 92
Tarasenko 91
Nekolenko
Prokhorkin 93
Nichushkin 95
Trocinsky
Yakupov 93
Kucherov 93
Karpov 91
Yakimov 94
Sokolov 98
Nikolishin
Scherbak

Hope that these young ones will replace rotting players like Radulov, Semin, Tereschenko etc soon.

 

[Aela*]

I think it would be better to stock up on young guys for a lot of your team.

Ovechkin - Malkin - Semin
Yakupov - Grigorenko - Kuznetsov
Goldobin - Burmistrov - Nichushkin
Kucherov - Namestnikov - Tarasenko
Extra: Barbashev, Yakimov, Anisimov, maybe Radulov

Zadorov - Voynov
Nikitin - Orlov
Kulikov - Tyutin

Vasilevskiy
Varlamov
Bobrovsky

I don't know much about Russian players playing outside of the NHL though, so I probably missed people. But that's a really great line up 4 years from now, I could see them winning gold with that.

 

[MaximusT]

I think it would be better to stock up on young guys for a lot of your team.

Ovechkin - Malkin - Semin
Yakupov - Grigorenko - Kuznetsov
Goldobin - Burmistrov - Nichushkin
Kucherov - Namestnikov - Tarasenko
Extra: Barbashev, Yakimov, Anisimov, maybe Radulov

Zadorov - Voynov
Nikitin - Orlov
Kulikov - Tyutin

Vasilevskiy
Varlamov
Bobrovsky

I don't know much about Russian players playing outside of the NHL though, so I probably missed people. But that's a really great line up 4 years from now, I could see them winning gold with that.

Really like this one. Certainly looks solid, but 2018 is a WAYS away, and anything can happen.

 

[Yakushev72]

Hope that these young ones will replace rotting players like Radulov, Semin, Tereschenko etc soon.

Radulov rotting? He was easily the second best Russian player in Sochi, only a short distance behind Datsyuk. I understand the legion of worldwide critics of Semin, but what is wrong with Tereschenko? What is the basis for your formulations here?