Olympics lines & jersey numbers

[LannysStach]

here’s the current lines (after 2 games), with jersey numbers, for Russia, Sweden, Slovakia, and Canada, of course.
haven’t been able to catch Finland, Czechs or U.S. yet – if anybody has the lines and wanted to share, that’d be cool.

I figure most of you will know most of this, but here’s to filling in the picture . . .


71 Ilya Kovalchuk — 13 Pavel Datsyuk — 27 Alexei Kovalev (C)
61 Maxim Afinogenov — 79 Alexei Yashin — 8 Alexander Ovechkin
21 Alex Kharitonov — 18 Evgeni Malkin — 33 Sushinsky
24 Alexander Frolov — 25 Victor Kozlov — 94 Alex Korloyuk

52 Andrei Markov (Montreal) — 29 Daniil Markov; (no relation!!)
55 Sergei Gonchar — 11 Darius Kasparaitis (A)
6 Anton Volchenkov — 51 Fedor Tyutin (Rangers rookie)
5 Vitali Vishnevsky — 4 Sergei Zhukov

20 Evgeni Nabokov (won Calder in ’01);
30 Ilya Bryzgalov (Anaheim) played 1st gm v Slov
39 Maxim Sokolov (bronze ‘05 Worlds)
(Khabibhulin out with knee injury; Alexei Zhitnik out)
GM: Pavel Bure – built team in his own offensive image
coach: Vladimir Krikunov - seems very out-of-it (played in Canada Cup ’76)
the great Slav Fetisov is now the Russian Director of Sports!


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33 Fredrik Modin — 13 Mats Sundin (C) — 11 Daniel Alfredsson (A)
20 Henrik Sedin — 12 Daniel Sedin — 37 Mikael Samuelsson
40 Henrik Zetterberg — 72 Jorgan Jonsson (A) (his 4th Olympics!) — 96 Tomas Holmstrom
22 P.J. Axelsson — 26 Samuel Pahlsson — 51 Mika Hannula
(21 Peter Forsberg)

5 Nicklas Lidstrom — 2 Mattias Ohlund (3rd Olympics for each of them)
34 Daniel Tarnqvist — 23 Ronnie Sundin
8 Christian Backman — 29 Kenny Jonsson
15 Niclas Havelid

King Henri Lundqvist 35 (24 yrs old; currently in NHL: 2nd in Sv % .927; 2nd in GAA 2.09);
Mikael Tellqvist 32, Stefan Liv 1 (played 1st game against Kaz.)

coach: BA Gustafsson (aka the Bag)

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10 Marian “Yvan Cournoyer†Gaborik — 38 Pavol Demitra (C) — 81 Marian Hossa
12 Peter Bondra (A) (Atlanta) — 22 Richard Kapus — 18 Miroslav Satan (A) (his 3rd Olympics)
40 Marek Svatos (the 30-goal rookie) — 23 Lubos Bartecko — 20 Richard Zednik
91 Marcel Hossa — 43 Tomas Surovy — 28 Ronald Petrovicky
15 Jozef Stumpel

3 Zdeno Chara (29; leads NHL in height) — 14 Andre Meszaros (leads NHL in +/-)
17 Lubomir “Lubi†Visnovsky (leads NHL Dmen in points) — 7 Martin Strbak
68 Milan Jurcina — 6 Rad Suchy
29 Ivan Majesky

37 Peter Budaj (0-4 in shoot-outs this year; after 18 games, he’s 16th best GAA at 2.73, and 23rd best save %, .901);
25 Jan Lasak (’02 Olympics, ’05 World Championship, and ’04 World Cup; also World Championships ’02, ’03, ‘04); Karol Krizan
coach: Frantisek Hossa, Marian & Marcel’s dad; GM: Peter Stastny

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Kris Draper 33 -- Joe Sakic (C) 91 -- Jerome Iginla (A) 12

Dany Heatley 15 -- Vincent Lecavalier 40 -- Martin St. Louis 26

Simon Gagne 21 -- Joe Thornton 97 -- Rick Nash 61

Ryan “Captain Canada†Smyth 94 - - Brad Richards 39 -- Steve Moore
Smyth's 10th intl tourney!
Shane Doan 9

Chris Pronger 44 (L) (cracked bone in foot) -- Rob Blake 4 (R) 2002 combo

Wade Redden 6 (L) -- Adam Foote 52 (R, 35 yrs old)

Robyn Regehr 28 (L) -- Jay Bouwmeester 3 (L)
Bryan McCabe 24 power-play

Marty Brodeur 30 - - 2.55 GAA (10th in NHL); .910 Sv % (14th best)
Roberto Luongo 1 - - 3.00 GAA; .914 Sv % faced most shots in NHL: 1779 - 300 more than next cloest goalie.
Marty Turco 35 - - 2.62 GAA (11th in NHL); bad .895 Sv % 32nd in NHL

“Taxi squadâ€: Jason Spezza, Eric Staal & Dan Boyle (Tampa)

shoot-out?: Heatley, Lecavalier, Sakic, St. Louis, & Nash? … Richards?

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[SJPuckPlayer]

Canada's 3rd line is better than their 1st two lines.

 

[therealdeal]

I didn't realize Steve Moore was on that line with Richards and Smytty.

 

[LannysStach]