IIHF CONFIRMS RUSSIA’S RIGHT TO CHANGE 23-MEN LIST

Yesterday the IIHF president Rene Fasel met with representatives of KHL and Russian Hockey Federation in Moscow.


Organizational issues, connected with the Vancouver Olympic games, were the main themes to discuss at the meeting. In particular Russian side got explanations about procedure of substitutions in the “23-men list” which was unveiled at the end of December.

"We have been explained about Olympic reserve players", said general manager of the team Vladislav Tretyak. "Russian team has right to take eight reserve players to Vancouver".

"The Russian Hockey federation will send list of these players to the IOC. We will be able to make changes in the squad in case of injuries of players from the preliminary 23-men list until 15 February".

"All other national teams can use this right, but not only Russia".