The national team roster for the Karjala Cup

We now know the senior Russian national team's roster for the Euro Hockey Tour Karjala Cup:

Goalkeepers: Ilya Sorokin (CSKA), Igor Shestyorkin (SKA Saint Petersburg), Vasily Demchenko (Traktor Chelyabinsk).

Defensemen: Viktor Antipin, Alexei Beloglazov (both Metallurg Magnitogorsk), Rushan Rafikov, Ilya Lyubushkin (both Lokomotiv), Bogdan Kiselevich, Igor Ozhiganov (both CSKA), Andrei Mironov (Dynamo Moscow), Artyom Zub (Amur Khabarovsk).

Forwards: Nikita Gusev, Nikolai Prokhorkin, Alexander Barabanov (all SKA Saint Petersburg), Anatoly Golyshev (Avtomobilist), Andrei Svetlakov, Valery Nichushkin (both CSKA), Stepan Sannikov, Sergei Shumakov, Konstantin Okulov (all Sibir Novosibirsk), Vladimir Tkachyov (Ak Bars), Vyacheslav Leschenko (Spartak Moscow), Pavel Kraskovsky, Yegor Korshkov (both Lokomotiv).

Russia will play their first tournament match against Finland at 19.30 Moscow time in the Finnish capital of Helsinki.

Russian Ice Hockey Federation