RUSSIA’S 23-MEN SQUAD

The coaching staff of the Russian hockey team named preliminary 23-men roster for the Olympic Games.

Preliminary list includes three goalkeepers and 20 in-field players, 14 players represent NHL, while nine men play in KHL. The 40-year-old Sergey Fyodorov is the oldest player in the roster, while the youngest is Semyon Varlamov, who is 21.

The 23-men lists includes these players:

Goalkeepers – Evgeniya Nabokov (San Jose), Ilya Bryzgalov (Phoenics), Semyon Varlamov (Washington);

Defensemen – Andrey Markov (Montreal), Ilya Nikulin (Ak Bars), Dmitriy Kalinin (Salavat Yulaev), Konstatin Korneev (CSKA), Denis Grebeshkov (Edmonton), Fyodor Tyutin (Columbus), Sergey Gonchar (Pittsburg), Anton Volchenkov (Ottawa);

Forwards – Sergey Zinovyev, Alexandr Radulov, Viktor Kozlov (all – Salavat Yulaev), Alexey Morozov, Danis Zaripov (both – Ak Bars), Ilya Kovalchuk, Maxim Afinogenov (both – Atlanta), Alexandr Ovechkin, Alexandr Semin (both – Washington), Pavel Datsyuk (Detroit), Evgeniy Malkin (Pittsburg), Sergey Fyodorov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)

Coaches have right to correct the list until 15 February, but only in case of players’ injuries.