Finalised Russia 25 squad for the Liga Stavok Big National Team Tour

The Russia 25 coaching staff has finalised the squad for the upcoming Liga Stavok Big National Team Tour.

These following players have been summoned to the team:

Goalkeepers: Nikita Serebryakov, Artemiy Pleshkov, Sergei Ivanov (all SKA), Evgeny Volokhin, Yegor Zavragin (both Yugra).

Defensemen: Artemiy Knyazev (Ak Bars), Ilya Karpukhin (Traktor), Maxim Fedotov, Artyom Zemchyonok, Nikita Kamalov, Arseniy Koromyslov, Ivan Vydrenkov (all SKA), Danila Galenyuk (Sochi), Vladimir Grudinin (Severstal), Mikhail Gulyaev (Avangard), Yegor Bryutov (CSKA), Fyodor Kroshchinsky (Sochi).

Forwards: Valentin Zykov, Vasily Glotov, Arseniy Gritsyuk, Mikhail Vorobyov, Sergei Tolchinsky, Zakhar Bardakov, Nikolai Polyakov, Dmitry Buchelnikov, Andrei Chivilyov (all SKA), Artur Tyanulin (Sochi), Nikita Dynyak (Ak Bars), Vitaly Abramov, Maxim Sorkin, Prokhor Poltapov (all CSKA), Vladislav Barulin (Amur), Maxim Dzhioshvili, Dmitry Rashevsky (both Dynamo Moscow).

The players who had initially been named in the preliminary squad cannot take part as a consequence of injuries.

Coaching staff:

Head coach: Roman Rotenberg.

Coaches: Albert Leshchyov (defensemen, penalty kill), Evgeny Koreshkov (forwards, powerplay), Konstantin Shafranov (forwards, powerplay), Evgeny Ketov, Alexei Babintsev.

Goalkeeping coaches: Maxim Sokolov, Yury Klyuchnikov, Andrei Komissarov.

Physical conditioning coaches: Maxim Sokolov, Artyom Nekhoroshikh, Alexander Troshin.

The training camp will take place in Novogorsk between the 22nd and 29th of April, before the team will then subsequently fly to Kazakhstan on April 30th.

Match schedule:

May 2nd, Kazakhstan - Russia, 17:30* (Astana);
May 4th, Russia - Belarus, 14:00 (Astana);
May 6th, Russia - Belarus, 16:30 (Omsk);
May 9th, Russia - Belarus, 17:00 (Tula);
May 11th, Russia - Belarus, 17:10 (Minsk).

*All times in accordance with Moscow time