Senior national team roster for the 2021 Karjala Cup

The Russian Ice Hockey Federation can now reveal the senior national team roster for the upcoming first stage of the 2021/2022 Euro Hockey Tour, which will take place in Finland in November.

Russia will gather in Novogorsk on November 7 before subsequently flying to Helsinki two days later.

These following players have been selected:

Goalkeepers: Yaroslav Askarov (SKA), Timur Bilyalov (Ak Bars), Vladimir Galkin (Avtomobilist).

Defensemen: Alexander Nikishin, Yegor Savikov (both Spartak), Sergei Telegin (Traktor), Shakir Mukhamadullin (Salavat Yulaev), Kirill Kirsanov, Arseniy Koromyslov, Nikita Smirnov (all SKA), Semyon Chistyakov (Avangard), Nikita Novikov (Dynamo Moscow), Vladimir Grudinin (CSKA).

Forwards: Danil Bashkirov (Salavat Yulaev), Artyom Galimov, Dmitry Voronkov, Ilya Safonov (all Ak Bars), Dmitry Rashevsky, Ivan Didkovsky (both Dynamo Moscow), Nikita Tertyshny (Traktor), Nikita Chibrikov, Fyodor Svechkov, Marat Khusnutdinov, Matvei Michkov (all SKA), Ilya Fedotov (Torpedo), Nikita Guslistov (Severstal), Pavel Tyutnev (Lokomotiv), Vasily Ponomaryov (Spartak).

Management group:

Head coach: Oleg Bratash
Coaches: Sergei Zubov, Alexander Titov
Goalkeeping coach: Andrei Komissarov
Consultant coach: Oleg Znarok
Physical conditioning coaches: Yury Zhdanov, Kevin Chapman
First vice-president of the RIHF: Roman Rotenberg

Schedule for Russia:

November 11, 19:30*, Finland - Russia
November 13, 15:00, Russia - Sweden
November 14, 14:30, Russia - Czech Republic

*All times in accordance with Moscow time