MOSCOW, Jan 23 in the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The list of players was made public on the air of Channel One. In total, the coaching staff of the team under the leadership of Alexei Zhamnov called 25 hockey players and six substitute players to the Games: goalkeepers: Timur Bilyalov (Ak Bars), Alexander Samonov (SKA), Ivan Fedotov (CSKA), a substitute — Dmitry Shugaev (Severstal);defenders: Alexander Nikishin (Spartak), Vyacheslav Voynov (Dynamo Moscow), Alexander Yelesin (Lokomotiv), Artem Minulin, Yegor Yakovlev (both — «Metallurg»), Nikita Nesterov (CSKA Moscow), Sergey Telegin («Tractor»), Damir Sharipzyanov («Vanguard»), spare — Semyon Chistyakov («Vanguard»); forwards: Sergey Andronov, Mikhail Grigorenko, Pavel Karnaukhov, Sergey Plotnikov, Anton Slepyshev (all — CSKA), Nikita Gusev, Kirill Marchenko (both — SKA), Vadim Shipachev (Dynamo Moscow), Dmitry Voronkov (Ak Bars), Andrey Chibisov ( Metallurg), Artur Kayumov, Artem Anisimov (both Lokomotiv), Arseniy Gritsyuk, Kirill Semenov (both Avangard), substitutes Alexander Kadeikin (Salavat Yulaev), Andrey Kuzmenko (SKA), Vladi Mir Tkachev (“Tractor”), Stanislav Galiev (“Dynamo”, Moscow). The previously published expanded composition included 37 hockey players. The players of the National Hockey League will not participate in the second Olympics in a row. The Olympics in Beijing will be held from 4 to 20 February. The Russian national team, the current Olympic champion, will play in a group with the Czechs, Swiss and Danes.
