Beijing, February 10, Andrey Senchenko. The Russian men's ice hockey team is the favorite group B at the Olympic Games in Beijing, says head coach of Denmark Heinz Ehlers. The Danes are rivals of the Russians in the group stage. The teams will meet on February 11th. In the first matches of the group round, the Danes beat the Czech Republic (2:1), and the Russians defeated the Swiss (1:0). «The Russian team is the absolute favorite of our group. This is the best team that I have already seen here. For us, the match with the Russians will very difficult, because they have a large number of quality, skillful players.We have prepared for ourselves a few video clips from their yesterday's match against Switzerland to draw the necessary conclusions from them.I know that you have the league's top scorer (KHL) I don't know how to pronounce his last name, but he plays in Dynamo Moscow (meaning Vadim Shipachev — ed.). In my opinion, he, like other Russian hockey players, has a lot of cool skills. He is a highly qualified player, «- Ehlers told reporters. «We keep a close-knit team, we need to play the same way as against the Czech Republic, act compactly. Of course, it's good that we have hockey players who have played and are playing in the KHL, they are familiar with many Russians yanami. This is a necessary and important experience,” added the coach.
