The composition of the Russian national team for participation in the World Hockey Youth Championship is unveiled

On Friday, the head coach of the Russian youth team, Sergei Gersonsky, called the composition of the national team, which will fly to the United States on December 18 to participate in the World Cup. The youth championship of the world will be held from December 25 to January 4 at American Grand Forms and Tif River Falls.

It included: goalkeepers - Anton Bogobin, ("Metallurg", Magnitogorsk), Andrey Kuznetsov, ("Salavat Yulaev", Ufa);

Defenders: Dmitry Vorobyov, Grigory Panin, Alexei Emelin (all - Lada, Togliatti), Dmitry Megalinsky, Grigory Misharin (both - "Hammer Prikamye", Perm), Yakov Rylov ("Dynamo", Moscow), Anton Belov (CSKA, Moscow), Denis Yezhov ("Metallurg", Novokuznetsk);

Forwards: Evgeny Malkin, Dmitry Pestunov (both - Metallurg, Magnitogorsk), Alexander Ovechkin (Dynamo, Moscow), Denis Parshin, Alexander Nikulin, Sergey Shirokov (all - CSKA, Moscow), Enver Lisin (Ak Bars, Kazan), Alexander Radulov (Quebec Remarts, Canada), Roman Voloshenko, Mikhail Yunkov Yunkov. (both are the “wings of the Soviets”, Moscow), Alexander Galimov, Grigory Shafigulin (Lokomotiv, Yaroslavl), Sergey Salnikov (Salavat Yulaev, Ufa).

“At the moment, the issue of Siberia’s defender Alexander Aksenenko and the striker Dynamo Konstantin Romanov, who remain in the near reserve of the team,” said Gersonsky, RIA Novosti said.

The rivals of Russians in the group tournament will be the national teams of the United States, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Belarus. For a direct exit to the semifinals of the championship, you need to take first place. The second and third lines give the right to play in the quarter -finals.