Ilya Vorobyov: "We are focused on our own game"

Russian national team head coach Ilya Vorobyov shared his expectations for the 2019 IIHF World Championship group stage match against Sweden:

- We held recovery training sessions today. Ilya Sorokin, Artyom Zub and Sergei Plotnikov decided to take to the ice. Gabriel Landeskog and John Klingberg have joined the Swedish team? They are good players. Are Nikita Kucherov and William Nylander battling it out to be the top scorer? We have our own goals. The Swedish head coach said that Russia are the favourites? That's his opinion. We look forward to every match.

We aren't going to choose our opponents for the quarter-final, we want to make the fans happy with our performances. I won't reveal our game plan. Have we sent scouts to Kosice to watch the other group? Yes, they will tell us information later.