Russia: 5-man color units

[Slitty]

No more talk of numbered lines in the NHL sense, they wont exist. We have colour 5-man units (they each wear their colour and practise together during trainging)

Red Unit:

Kovalchuk-Datsyuk-Kovalev
A.Markov-D.Markov​

Blue Unit:

Kharitonov-Yashin-Sushinsky
Gonchar-Volchenkov​

*Kulyash(sub) is part of the blue unit in training


White Unit:

Frolov-Kozlov-Korolyuk
Vishnevsky-Zhukov​

*Taratukhin(sub) is part of the white unit in training


Yellow Unit:

Ovechkin-Malkin-Afinogenov
Tyutin-Kasparitis​

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[Skroob*]

Yellow Unit looks good to me

 

[Tokyo Bucks]

So, Olympic hockey is 20 skaters and 2 goalies dressed per game?

And this also means that defensemen won't have more icetime than forwards. Interesting.

People in Japanese hockey are split on whether to go with forward lines and defensive pairs or five man units.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Long Live The Maroon, Yellow Unit!

 

[Slitty]

So, Olympic hockey is 20 skaters and 2 goalies dressed per game?

And this also means that defensemen won't have more icetime than forwards. Interesting.

People in Japanese hockey are split on whether to go with forward lines and defensive pairs or five man units.

Most teams play the NHL way with one more offensive line than defensive pairing and just dress one extra defenceman + forward that get limited time on the penalty kill and such. For most teams the defencemen still get more ice time, Russia is different.

 

[Slitty]

Long Live The Maroon, Yellow Unit!

Well if you're concerned with just how yellow this unit is, im sure Mr. Ovechkin and Mr. Malkin could show you :

 

[PavelBure]

Well if you're concerned with just how yellow this unit is, im sure Mr. Ovechkin and Mr. Malkin could show you :

thats a cool picture do u have any more?

 

[Slitty]

thats a cool picture do u have any more?

Check out the Official Turin Thread on the Russia board, there are some practise pics of all the color units... but it mainly concentrates on Ovechkin.

 

[BiggMac99]

Where is the G-Unit?!

 

[Archijerej]

Sorry, but you're doomed without the green unit

 

[Nemchinov13]

Yellow Unit looks good to me

For some reason, I like that yellow unit too. Ovechkin is my favorite player, but for some strange reason that defensive pairing is so attractive...

 

[RayLeeCharles]

Well if you're concerned with just how yellow this unit is, im sure Mr. Ovechkin and Mr. Malkin could show you :

Hulkamania is running wild brother! Haha cool pic

 

[octopi]

Well if you're concerned with just how yellow this unit is, im sure Mr. Ovechkin and Mr. Malkin could show you :

And here I thought that name was due to the extreme youth, and inevitably, training pants .....

Seriously, though, they look like extras for "Yeah, Bananas!"