Evgeny Oliker
Registered User
i have to say that the 14 players TEAM RUSSIA picked so far already show that this team will be very different from all other of Russia's national teams. Seems that this new coach is going out of his way to get more defensive-minded, physical forwards on his team. he went as far as asking Lithuania for the right to include ZUBRUS(never played in WC for Russia) on Russia's team. guys like Kvasha, Yashin, Nikolishin, Afinogenov, Zhamnov and Samsonov are also all capable of playing defense and playing physical. It remains to be seen what the rest of the team will look like, but it seems like this team will play better defensively and be more physical than the Olympic team.
here is what i would do with the 14 players picked:
LW - ZHAMNOV - RW
KVASHA - YASHIN - SAMSONOV
LW - NIKOLISHIN - ZUBRUS
AFINOGENOV - DATSYUK - OVECHKIN
S. Gonchar - D. Markov
A. Markov - RD
LD - RD
extras: Khavanov - Tverdovsky
here is what i would do with the 14 players picked:
LW - ZHAMNOV - RW
KVASHA - YASHIN - SAMSONOV
LW - NIKOLISHIN - ZUBRUS
AFINOGENOV - DATSYUK - OVECHKIN
S. Gonchar - D. Markov
A. Markov - RD
LD - RD
extras: Khavanov - Tverdovsky