Preliminary Russia 25 squad for matches in May

The Russian Ice Hockey Federation can reveal the preliminary Russia 25 squad which will participate in the Liga Stavok Big National Team Tour:

Goalkeepers: Nikita Serebryakov (Admiral), Maxim Dorozhko (Vityaz), Daniil Isaev (Lokomotiv), Dmitry Shugaev (Severstal), Sergei Ivanov, Dmitry Nikolaev (both SKA).

Defensemen: Alexander Yelesin, Daniil Misyul (both Lokomotiv), Nikita Kamalov, Arseniy Koromyslov, Alexander Nikishin, Igor Ozhiganov, Mikhail Pashnin, Andrei Pedan, Roman Rukavishnikov, Georgy Solyannikov, Nikita Smirnov (all SKA), Nikita Novikov (Dynamo Moscow), Maxim Fedotov (Torpedo), Grigory Dronov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk), Daniil Pylenkov (Severstal), Damir Sharipzyanov (Avangard).

Forwards: Zakhar Bardakov, Alexander Volkov, Mikhail Vorobyov, Vasily Glotov, Svyatoslav Grebenshchikov, Valentin Zykov, Nikolai Polyakov, Nikolai Prokhorkin, Marat Khairullin, Marat Khusnutdinov, Vladislav Tsitsyura (all SKA), Maxim Dzhioshvili, Dmitry Rashevsky (both Dynamo Moscow), Matvei Michkov (Sochi), Pavel Poryadin, Andrei Chivilyov (both Neftekhimik), Maxim Shabanov (Traktor), Gleb Petrov (Mikhailov Academy), Yaroslav Likhachyov, Ivan Nikolishin (both Amur), Denis Alexeev (Lokomotiv), Sergei Goncharuk, Nikolai Kovalenko (both Torpedo), Alexander Kadeikin (Salavat Yulaev), Nikita Korostelyov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk), Vladimir Tkachyov, Sergei Tolchinsky (both Avangard).

Match schedule:

Chelyabinsk

May 2, 16:30*: Russia 25 - Belarus
May 3, 16:30: Russia 25 - Belarus

Astana, Kazakhstan

May 5, 16:30: Kazakhstan - Russia 25
May 6, 14:00: Russia 25 - Belarus

Krasnoyarsk

May 9, 12:00: Russia 25 - Belarus

Tula

May 12, 19:00: Russia 25 - Belarus
May 13, 16:30: Russia 25 - Belarus

Minsk, Belarus

May 15, 19:00: Belarus - Russia 25
May 16, 19:00: Belarus - Russia 25

*All times in accordance with Moscow time