All-Star Game. Deron Quint to appear for Team East
Due to collective agreement’s signing
between NHL and NHLPA the players that participated in KHL season during the
NHL lockout and in the meantime still had contractual obligations with any of
the NHL teams are to return to their respective clubs.
Therefore, some of the players that have been voted to participate in the
All-Star Weekend will be unable to do this. These players will be replaced by
KHL players that comprised the so-called KHL reserve lost. Considering
everything aforementioned, here’s how both teams’ line-ups will look like:
Team West
Goaltenders:Vasily Koshechkin (Severstal), Rastislav Stana (CSKA);
Defensemen:Aleksandr Ryazantsev (Severstal), Kevin Dallman (SKA), Ondrej
Nemec (Lev), Ilya Gorokhov (Dynamo Moscow), Staffan Kronwall (Lokomotiv), Dmitry
Kalinin (SKA);
Forwards:Ilya Kovalchuk (SKA), Aleksandr Radulov (CSKA), Tim
Stapleton (Dinamo Minsk), Nikolay Zherdev (Atlant), Aleksandr Korolyuk (Vityaz),
Sergey Shirokov (CSKA), Denis Kokarev (Dynamo Moscow), Sergey Plotnikov
(Lokomotiv), Mikhail Varnakov (Torpedo).
Team East
Goaltenders:Michael Garnett (Traktor), Konstantin Barulin (Ak Bars);
Defensemen:Ilya Nikulin (Ak Bars), Anton Belov (Avangard), Yevgeny
Medvedev (Ak Bars), Renat Mamashev (Neftekhimik), Viktor Antipin (Metallurg
Magnitogorsk), Deron Quint (Traktor);
Forwards:Yevgeny Kuznetsov (Traktor), Sergey Mozyakin (Metallurg
Magnitogorsk), Jori Lehterä (Sibir), Jakub Petruzalek (Amur), Tomas Zaborsky, Aleksandr
Perezhogin (both – Avangard), Aleksey Morozov (Ak Bars), Dmitry Kagarlitskiy
(Metallurg Novokuznetsk), Igor Skorokhodov (Yugra).