Vasili Demchenko to play for Olympic team Russia

The purpose of holding this training camp is to prepare the players for two exhibition games against Latvia on April 1 and 2, as well as to see potential candidates for participation in the IIHF world championship in action.

Below is the full list of players the team’s head coach Oleg Bratash and assistant coach Igor Nikitin have assembled for the training camp.

Goalies: Ilya Sorokin (CSKA), Vasili Demchenko (Traktor), Vladislav Gross (Avtomobilist).

Defensemen: Bogdan Kiselevich, Igor Ozhiganov, Artyom Blazhievsky, Mikhail Naumenkov (both – CSKA), Zakhar Arzamastsev (Salavat Yulaev), Andrei Mironov (Dynamo Moscow), Yaroslav Dyblenko, Vladislav Provolnev (both – Spartak).

Forwards:Valeri Nichushkin, Andrei Svetlakov, Sergei Andronov, Ivan Telegin, Maxim Mamin (both –CSKA), Kirill Kaprizov, Mikhail Vorobyov (both – Salavat Yulaev), Sergei Shumakov, Maxim Shalunov, Stepan Sannikov (all – Sibir), Anatoli Golyshev (Avtomobilist), Vyacheslav Leshchenko (Spartak), Maxim Karpov (Dynamo Moscow), Anton Burdasov (Avangard), Viktor Komarov (Lada).