MOSCOW, Jan 20 Eighteen players from the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) ), became part of the Finnish national team to participate in the Olympic Games, according to the official Twitter account of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). The 2022 Olympics will be held in Beijing from February 4 to 20. The Finnish team will play in Group C. Its rivals in the group stage will be the national teams of Sweden, Slovakia and Latvia. The Finnish national team includes five players who play in the Finnish Jokerit (defenders Niklas Frimas and Petteri Lindbom, forwards Marko Anttila, Hannes Bjorninen and Iiro Pakarinen), three — in St. Petersburg SKA (defender Mikko Lehtonen and forwards Jonas Kemppainen and Leo Komarov), three — in Vityaz Podolsk (defender Valtteri Kemilyainen, forwards Niko Oyamyaki and Miro Aaltonen), three — in Ufa «Salavat Yulaev» (forwards Markus Granlund, Teemu Hartikainen and Sakari Manninen), Avangard Omsk defender Ville Pokka, as well as goalkeepers Juho Olkinuora from Metallurg Magnitogorsk, Harri Syateri from Sibir Novosibirsk and Frans Tuohimaa from Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk. There are 25 players in total:goalkeepers: Yulkinuora, Syateri, Tuohimaa;defenders: Freeman, Juuso Hietanen (Ambri-Piotta, Switzerland), Kemilyainen , Lechton en, Lindbom, Atte Ohtamaa (Kärpät, Finland), Pokka, Sami Vatanen (Geneva-Servette, Switzerland); «0, Granlund, Hartikainen, Keippainen, Komarov, Manninen, Saku Mäenalanen (Kärpyat), Ojamäki, Pakarinen, Harri Pesonen (Langnau, Switzerland), Toni Rajala (Bille Bien, Switzerland).
