The senior national team roster for the Swedish Hockey Games

The Russian Ice Hockey Federation can now announce the senior national team roster to compete in the Swedish Hockey Games betweeen the 26th and 29th of April.

Goalkeepers: Vasily Koshechkin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk), Igor Shestyorkin (SKA Saint Petersburg), Ivan Bocharov (Dynamo Moscow).

Defensemen: Artyom Zub, Dinar Khafizullin, Anton Belov, Vladislav Gavrikov, Yegor Yakovlev (all SKA Saint Petersburg), Alexei Bereglazov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk), Nikita Tryamkin (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg), Alexei Marchenko, Nikita Nesterov (both CSKA Moscow).

Forwards: Stanislav Galiev, Vladimir Tkachyov (both Ak Bars Kazan), Mikhail Grigorenko, Maxim Shalunov, Kirill Kaprizov (all CSKA Moscow), Viktor Tikhonov, Alexander Barabanov, Ilya Kablukov (all SKA Saint Petersburg), Alexei Kruchinin (Traktor Chelyabinsk), Alexei Byvaltsev (Amur Khabarovsk), Evgeny Dadonov, Maxim Mamin (both Florida Panthers), Pavel Buchnevich (New York Rangers), Nikita Soshnikov (St. Louis Blues), Ilya Mikheev, Kirill Semyonov (both Avangard Omsk).

Defensemen Dmitry Ogurtsov and Alexander Elesin will compete for the Russian Olympic team at the ALROSA Cup in Saint Petersburg.

Goalkeeper Ilya Sorokin (CSKA Moscow), defensemen Vasily Tokranov and Albert Yarullin (both Ak Bars Kazan) and forwards Ivan Telegin, Sergei Andronov, Valery Nichushkin (all CSKA Moscow), Nikita Gusev and Pavel Datsyuk (both SKA Saint Petersburg) will continue training in Moscow.

The Russian Ice Hockey Federation thanks forwards Alexander Dergachyov, Dmitry Kagarlitsky and Anton Slepyshev for their efforts and count on them for future competitions.

Swedish Hockey Games schedule:

April 26, Finland - Russia, Helsinki, 18:30
April 28, Sweden - Russia, Stockholm, 16:30
April 29, Russia - Czech Republic, Stockholm, 13:00

Russian Ice Hockey Federation