Russian national ice hockey team composition for Olympics in Pyeongchang is named

UFA, 25 January 2018. /Bashinform News Agency, Natalia Ovcharuk/. The coaching staff of the Russian national hockey team named a composition of the national team, which will go to the Olympic Games in South Korea. Mainly players of SKA and CSKA clubs will compete in Pyeongchang under the neutral flag for medals. Four more hockey players are from Magnitogorsk Metallurg, Kazan Ak Bars and Yekaterinburg Automobilist, according to the official website of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation.

Goalkeepers: Vasily Koshechkin ("Metallurg" Mg), Ilya Sorokin (CSKA), Igor Shesterkin (SKA).

Defenders: Andrei Zubarev, Artem Zub, Vladislav Gavrikov, Vyacheslav Voinov, Dinar Khafizullin (SKA), Alexey Marchenko, Bogdan Kiselevich, Nikita Nesterov (CSKA).

Forwards: Alexander Barabanov, Vadim Shipachev, Ilya Kovalchuk, Ilya Kablukov, Nikita Gusev, Nikolay Prokhorkin, Sergey Shirokov, Pavel Datsyuk, Sergey Kalinin (SKA), Ivan Telegin, Kirill Kaprizov, Mikhail Grigorenko, Sergei Andronov (CSKA) , Sergei Mozyakin ("Metallurg" Mg).

Reserve: defenders Nikita Tryamkin, Yegor Yakovlev (SKA) ("Automobilist") and forward Vladimir Tkachev ("Ak Bars").

Competitions in Pyeongchang will start on February 9 and finish on February 25.