Ovechkin against the US team will play in the three with Tikhonov and Plotnikov

Russian striker Alexander Ovechkin will play in the three with Viktor Tikhonov and Sergey Plotnikov in the semifinal match of the World Hockey Championship with the US team, which ends in the Czech Republic.

At the morning "Rolling" Forward "Washington", only on Friday, who arrived in Prague from North America, was engaged with Viktor Tikhonov and Sergey Plotnikov.

“It’s good for the three last year, we hope that we will continue to play this bunch well,” Viktor Tikhonov told reporters. “We remember something else, we’ll see the game. There were good moments, everything will be visible there. We are well suitable for each other, we make the opponent to make mistakes.”

In the match with the Americans, which will begin at 20.15 minutes Moscow time, the gates of the Russian team will be defended by Sergey Bobrovsky, Anton Martin will remain on the bench.

At the group stage, the team led by Oleg Znark lost to the Americans . In another semi -finals, Hockey players of Canada and the Czech Republic will play.