Final Russian Roster

The final Russian roster is up at the iihf web site.
Good *********g lord, what in the world is Tikhonov thinking?
No Frolov, Afinogenov or Mozyakin? Stiffs like Skugarev and Bashkirov made the team.
:shakehead :dunno: :banghead: :help:

2 TURKOVSKI Vasili D L 188 / 6'2'' 93 / 205 03.09.1974 AK Bars Kazan RUS 23.04.2004
4 PROSHKIN Vitali D L 192 / 6'4'' 102 / 225 08.05.1976 AK Bars Kazan RUS 23.04.2004
5 BYKOV Dmitri D L 185 / 6'1'' 90 / 198 05.05.1977 AK Bars Kazan RUS 23.04.2004
7 GUSKOV Alexander D L 189 / 6'2'' 93 / 205 26.11.1976 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl RUS 23.04.2004
8 OVECHKIN Alexander F R 187 / 6'2'' 96 / 212 17.09.1985 Dynamo Moscow RUS 23.04.2004
10 TVERDOVSKY Oleg D L 185 / 6'1'' 91 / 201 18.05.1976 Avangard Omsk RUS 23.04.2004
11 BASHKIROV Andrei F L 180 / 5'11'' 95 / 209 22.06.1970 Lausanne HC SUI 23.04.2004
16 SKOPINTSEV Andrei D R 183 / 6'0'' 89 / 196 28.09.1971 Dynamo Moscow RUS 23.04.2004
20 FOMICHEV Alexander GK L 175 / 5'9'' 82 / 181 19.02.1979 Sibir Novosibirsk RUS 23.04.2004
23 PROKOPEV Alexander F R 181 / 5'11'' 82 / 181 10.06.1971 Avangard Omsk RUS 23.04.2004
24 ANTIPOV Vladimir F L 180 / 5'11'' 84 / 185 14.01.1978 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl RUS 23.04.2004
26 BUTSAEV Vyacheslav F L 188 / 6'2'' 99 / 218 13.06.1970 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl RUS 23.04.2004
27 ZELEPUKIN Valeri F L 183 / 6'0'' 90 / 198 17.09.1968 SKA St. Petersburg RUS 23.04.2004
29 SKUGAREV Alexander F L 189 / 6'2'' 90 / 198 13.03.1975 Lada Togliatti RUS 23.04.2004
31 PODOMATSKI Egor GK L 177 / 5'10'' 80 / 176 22.11.1976 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl RUS 23.04.2004
33 SUSHINSKIY Maxim F L 172 / 5'8'' 80 / 176 01.07.1974 Avangard Omsk RUS 23.04.2004
36 YUSHKEVICH Dmitri D R 182 / 6'0'' 92 / 203 19.11.1971 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl RUS 23.04.2004
39 SOKOLOV Maxim GK L 180 / 5'11'' 86 / 190 27.05.1972 Avangard Omsk RUS 23.04.2004
45 KALININ Dmitri D L 188 / 6'2'' 95 / 209 22.07.1980 Buffalo Sabres USA 23.04.2004
71 KOVALCHUK Ilya F R 188 / 6'2'' 102 / 225 15.04.1983 Atlanta Thrashers USA 23.04.2004
79 YASHIN Alexei F R 193 / 6'4'' 100 / 220 05.11.1973 New York Islanders USA 23.04.2004
95 MOROZOV Alexei F L 187 / 6'2'' 88 / 194 16.02.1977 Pittsburgh Penguins USA 23.04.2004

Well as soon as i will see russian team play i will make my opinion about this...It was said that frolov has some injury ,mozyakin was hurt not long ago and maybe he is not ready for hard battles because i have a filling tihonov likes him...I dont know about Afinogenov...
As i said as soon as i see what chemistry the team has i will make decision if tihonov belongs to history or the old master is back...
Otherwise i dont blow these big names stuff..We all witness WC 2000 in Russia...If those names were out beacuse of some I AM BIG NHL STAR WHO EARNS MORE THAN U ,****, then i dont want to see them also

Weren't they supposed to have a young team this year...

Well, I don't really care... I'll just be glad to see Ovechkin and Kovalchuk play again...

No Zinoviev either.

No Koltsov? No Gladskikh? :shakehead

I see that both Fedorov's aren't playing. I'd think they both declined offers.

Gladskikh!!!!!!!!! :'(

Zherdev's Russian right? Is he not allowed to play?

Zherdev's Russian right? Is he not allowed to play?


He is allowed.
But once he crosses in Europe, the Russians will kidnap him and never give him back. :cry:

He's safe in the US/Canada.

at least we can watch Ovechkin :D

Frolov is injured; otherwise he'd be on the team. Kovalchuk played with a bad blister on his foot for a couple of months, but didn't want to sit the Worlds out. Source: Sovetskiy Sport.

No Sergei's from Boston???WTF

Samsonov, Gonchar and Zinovjev. Brutal...thought all would play

No Sergei's from Boston???WTF

Samsonov, Gonchar and Zinovjev. Brutal...thought all would play

Zinovjev got caught in a doping test. Weed. So he was sent home.

Source: Finnish TV channel (tellytext, text-tv... whatever actually) MTV3.