The most important thing is that Nabokov is playing GREAT! It was really hard to play against Kazakhs. They know how to play against Russia and neutralize all of their strenghts. And we all know that Russia plays bad agianst former USSR countries. Somebody mentioned how only Russian Superleague can beat Russian Superleague and that's true. B team would I think do better against this Kazakh team.
I expect an incredibly tough game tomorrow against Latvia. It will be just more of the same. It will surely be much tougher than against the US. My suggestion for the game would be: play Malkin, Sushinsky, Kharitonov and Ovechkin as much as possible!!! Numbers 18 and 33 are just great!!!