NHL hockey players will join the national team after Eurotour matches

Russian hockey players from the clubs of the National Hockey League (NHL), whose clubs did not break into the playoffs, will join the national team to prepare for the World Cup - 2015 after the end of the Eurotour matches. It is expected that they will arrive in the location of the national team on April 20.

"At this stage, all the attention of the headquarters of Andrei Safronov and Oleg Zaborov - the Finnish stage of the Eurotour, which the team is flying away tomorrow. According to the plan, the list of the NHL, the list of which has already been declared the head of our breeding service, will begin work in Novogorsk after the team returned from Finland. Previously we are talking about April 20, " R -Sport quotes the head of the Russian national team of the Russian Federation Igor Igora Larina.

The head of the breeding service of the national team, Alexei Zhamnov, announced an invitation to the national team of Anton Medin ("Carolina"), Artem Anisimov, Sergey Bobrovsky (both - "Columbus"), Dmitry Kulikov ("Florida") and Nail Yakupov (Edmonton). The clubs of these players, following the results of the NHL regular championship, could not get into the playoffs.

Earlier it was reported that the leadership of the Russian national hockey team expects to invite players from the NHL to the World Cup participating in this tournament a year ago - goalkeeper Sergei Bobrovsky, attackers of Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeny Malkin. If one of them is free and will be able to come.

The world championship this year will be held from May 1 to 17 in the Czech cities of Prague and Ostrava. The Russians will protect the title on it a year ago .