Shoalzie said:
Care to enlighten us? I don't know which guys want to play and those who do. I know Fedorov isn't playing. What's the goaltending situation...is Khabibulin going to play?
With latest developments being what they are, the team looks a little like this:
Ovechkin-Datsyuk-Kovalev
Kovalchuk-Yashin-Korolyuk
Kharitonov-Malkin-Sushinsky
Frolov-Brylin-Afinogenov
Extra: Viktor Kozlov
A. Markov-Gonchar
Volchenkov-Zhitnik
Tverdosvky-D. Markov
Extra: Tyutin
Khabibulin
Sokolov
Nabokov (even though there is indication Bryzgalov will take this spot)
Injury reserve (taxi squad): Zvinovjev(center), Morozov (wing), Kasparitis (defence) who go to the Olympics but dont dress unless there is an injury.
Notes: the declinations in order of importance were Zubov, Samsonov, Federov, Mogilny, Malakhov. Some suspect the last 3 or 4 bowed out to save face at not being selected.
As for my actual squad: Its a tossup between Bryzgalov or Nabokov for that 3rd spot, but Bryzgalov has recieved some indication he will make it. Morozov may very well make it ahead of Korolyuk or Kharitonov. Defence could change with additions of Kulyash, Kasparitis, or Kalinin. We could even see Khavanov, Vishnevsky, some RSL guy, or Zyuzin on the taxi squad. That 4th center position taken up by Brylin is questionable and he can be replaced by V. Kozlov, Zvinovjev, or even Zhamnov. Otherwise the roster is pretty much set in stone already.
No Semin (shot at taxi squad), Grigorenko, Kaigorodov, Zherdev, ect for all you following your prospects. Honorible mention to Zhamnov who is willing to play as always, Kulyash who is a young offensive dynamo and is the future of Russian offensive defencemen, and Zherdev, Grigorenko, Semin, Perezhogin, Barulin, Koshechkin, Bryzgalov, Babchuk, Kalinin, Vyshedkevich, Vorobiev, (possibly Radulov, Salubov, and Voloshenko), and the rest of the kids that will contend for the 2010 roster.