Russia named rosters
26 Oct 2012 | Davide Tuniz
Karjala Cup and Russia B rosters were announced today
Russia head coach
Zinetula Bilyaletdinov called the preliminary roster for the opening stage of the Euro Hockey Tour, the
Karjala Cup, which will be held from 7 to 10 November in the Finnish city of Turku.
The expanded list includes 23 players: 2 goalkeepers, 8 defenders, 13 forwards.
Goalkeepers: Konstantin Barulin (Ak Bars Kazan), Sergei Bobrovsky (SKA St. Petersburg).
Defenders: Yuri Alexandrov, Maxim Chudinov (both - SKA St. Petersburg), Anton Belov (Avangard Omsk), Yevgeny Biryukov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk), Dmitry Kulikov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl), Evgeny Medvedev, Ilya Nikulin (both - Ak Bars Kazan ) Evgeny Ryasensky (CSKA Moscow).
Forwards: Artem Anisimov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl), Evgeny Dadonov (Donbas Donets'k UKR), Nikolai Zherdev (Atlant Moscow Oblast), Denis Kokarev (Dynamo Moscow), Evgeny Kuznetsov (Tractor Chelyabinsk), Igor Makarov, Vladimir Tarasenko, Viktor Tikhonov (all - SKA St. Petersburg), Kirill Petrov, Alexei Tereshchenko (both - Ak Bars Kazan), Alexander Radulov (CSKA Moscow), Alexander Svitov (Salavat Yulaev Ufa), Vadim Shipachev (Severstal Cherepovets)
Also Russia B coach Igor Nikitin announced the roster for the friendly match against France which will be held November 6 at the Arena Mytischi, in celebration of the decade of the "Auchan" in Russia, as well as two exhibition games with Latvia in Riga on 9 and 10 November.
Goalkeepers: Sergei Borisov (Spartak Moscow), Ilya Yezhov (SKA St. Petersburg).
Defenders: Victor Antipin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk), Ivan Vishnevsky, Roman Rukavishnikov (both - Atlant Moscow Oblast), Nikita Zaitsev (Sibir Novosibirsk), Andrei Zubarev (Salavat Yulaev Ufa), Alexei Marchenko (CSKA Moscow), Alexander Osipov ( Amur Khabarovsk), Nikita Pivtsakin (Avangard Omsk), Yegor Yakovlev (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl).
Forwards: Egor Averin, Alexei Kruchinin, Dmitry Maltsev, Sergei Plotnikov (all - Lokomotiv Yaroslavl), Evgeny Bodrov, Artem Lukoyanov (both - Ak Bars Kazan), Anton Burdasov, Alexander Kucheryavenko (both - SKA St. Petersburg), Vladimir Zharkov, Ilya Zubov (both - CSKA Moscow), Dmitry Kagarlitsky (Metallurg Novokuznetsk), Maxim Karpov (Tractor Chelyabinsk), Petr Khokhryakov (Neftekhimik).