The composition of the Russian national hockey team for the Beijing Olympics

The list of hockey players of the expanded composition of the Russian national team for the Beijing Olympics 2022 has been published. The list includes seven players from SKA and CSKA, three from Kazan’s Ak Bars and Dynamo Moscow, four representatives of Avangard and players from other clubs in the Continental Hockey League.

Let’s remind, the Olympic Games from February, 4 till February, 20th in Beijing. On December 22, the National Hockey League (NHL) officially announced that its players will not take part in the Olympics due to an increase in the number of cases of covid among league players. A total of 12 men’s teams will take part in the Games.

Goalkeepers of the Russian national team: Yaroslav Askarov, Alexander Samonov (both SKA), Timur Bilyalov (Ak Bars), Ivan Fedotov (CSKA), Dmitry Shugaev (Severstal).

Defenders: Dmitry Vishnevsky, Alexander Nikishin (both Spartak), Vyacheslav Voinov (Dynamo M), Alexander Yelesin (Lokomotiv), Artyom Minulin, Yegor Yakovlev (both Metallurg), Shakir Mukhamadullin (Salavat Yulaev”), Daniil Pylenkov (SKA), Nikita Nesterov (CSKA), Sergey Telegin (Tractor), Semyon Chistyakov, Damir Sharipzyanov (both – Avangard).

Forwards: Sergey Andronov, Mikhail Grigorenko, Pavel Karnaukhov, Sergey Plotnikov, Anton Slepyshev (all – CSKA), Anton Burdasov, Nikita Gusev, Andrey Kuzmenko, Kirill Marchenko (all – SKA), Stanislav Galiev, Vadim Shipachev (both – Dynamo) M), Artem Galimov, Dmitry Voronkov (both Ak Bars), Arseniy Gritsyuk, Kirill Semenov (both Avangard), Alexander Kadeikin (Salavat Yulaev), Artur Kayumov (Lokomotiv), Vladimir Tkachev ( “Tractor”), Andrey Chibisov (“Metallurg”).

NHL players also missed the previous Olympics in 2018. Then the victory was won by the Russian team, which in the final was stronger than Germany 4:3 (OT).