The U16 national team have defeated CSKA-1999 in a friendly match

In the final match between the 2016 Youth Olympic Games, the under 16 Russian national team played against a CSKA-1999 team in Novogorsk. In accordance with Youth Olympic rules, the game was staged in three periods of fifteen minutes.

Russia were expected to hold an advantage, and after a goalless first period Yegor Sokolov and Andrei Svechnikov put the Russians up 2:0. CSKA's Kirill Gusarov got them on the board in the third, however an Grigory Denisenko sealed the Russian deal.

After the game, CSKA won a penalty shootout between the two teams.

Russian U16 head coach Evgeny Filinov:

- You saw our first team today. These guys will fly away to Norway to defend their country on Monday. I liked the players' mindset, and they took advantage of their goalscoring chances. However, so many penalties could cost us victory at the Olympics. In future games we will try to correct this.

- Penalties can be excused by players' nerves. Why did they foul today?

- A lot of CSKA's players are a year older, and that means that they are stronger and more experienced. We made mistakes in the third period when we took two penalties in a row.

- Why did you ask to have a penalty shootout?

- In Norway, penalty shootouts will occur instead of overtime if a match finishes in a draw. We needed to see which guys will take them. Unfortunately, we couldn't win the shootout. Hopefully at the Olympics we will win without shootouts.

- How do the players feel before the Olympics?

- They are in a fighting mood. You could see for yourselves that they were blocking pucks committedly. 

Russia U16 - CSKA-1999 - 4:1

Goals:

1:0 Sokolov (Denezhkin, Rotenberg), 17.34

2:0 Svechnikov (Kotkov), 27.15

3:0 Denisenko (Babintsev), 30.46

3:1 Gusarov (Bilyalov, Oparko), 34.39

4:1 Denisenko (Zhabreev), 42.36

Goalkeepers: Dubrovsky - Rybalkin/Voronin

06.02.2016. Novogorsk.

Russian Ice Hockey Federation