A glance at Team Russia

Earlier this summer we looked at the potential rosters for USA & Canada for this winter’s Olympics in Vancouver. Today, we take a gander at what the Russians may look like this February…

Forwards (12)
Alexander Ovechkin
Evgeni Malkin
Pavel Datsyuk
Ilya Kovalchuk
Alexander Semin
Alexei Kovalev
Alexander Radulov
Viktor Kozlov
Alexei Morozov
Alexander Frolov
Denis Zaripov
Alexei Tereschenko

Defensemen (6)
Sergei Gonchar
Andrei Markov
Anton Volchenkov
Fedor Tyutin
Denis Grebeshkov
Vitali Atyushov

Goalies (3)
Evgeni Nabokov
Ilya Bryzgalov
Simeon Varlamov

Omissions from camp:
Artyukhin, Afinogenov, Gorovikov, Zinoviev, Kulemin, Saprykin, Vishnevski, Zhitnik, Zubov, Fedorov, Kalinin, Kondratiev, Korneyev, Nikulin, Proshkin, Tverdovsky, Varlamov, Eremenko

Olympics Outlook:
Russia just might have the most dangerous team in the Olympics. Chemistry will not be an issue as they always seem to play well together. Any team with Ovechkin, Malkin, and Datsyuk has a good chance at winning gold.