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- Nov 16, 2005
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In spite of the bad performance at the recent Winter Olympics, Russia keeps on producing good players at a good rate, as confirmed by the recent good showing of the WJC squad.
Wingers are probably the players that Russia manages to produce more of than any other position, but goaltending recently became a non-issue for the national team thanks to the emergence of Semyon Varlamov, Sergei Bobrovsky, and Andrei Vasilevsky. But the same cannot be said regarding defensemen and centers, two positions at which Russia has produced few strong NHL prospects of late . But regarding wingers, there are quite a good number of them playing and progressing in the KHL.… read more
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