Evgeni Malkin, Sergei Gonchar going to Russia's Olympic training camp

by Hooks Orpik on Jul 7, 2009 10:26 AM EDT in News

To the surprise of no one, Evgeni Malkin and Sergei Gonchar were a part of the 23 players named to a two day training camp in Moscow in preparation for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

What does kind of surprise is that only 23 players were invited, most countries haven't trimmed the list that much yet. Also, almost all the players going are NHL players, there are hardly any KHL stars (like former Penguin Aleksey Morozov) are going to be there. KHL players like Sergei Fedorov and Viktor Kozlov are going, but they've been in the NHL for a while. The KHL season starts earlier than the NHL season, so I'm not sure if scheduling has anything to do with it. The article mentions that this is not necessarily the final team, so we'll have to keep an eye on what they're doing over there.

I think one of the most interesting things about the Olympics will be how Russia chooses to manage their lines...They've got so much firepower; would you have Geno center Alex Ovechkin and Alex Semin of the Washington Capitals? Or perhaps put him on a line with Ilya Kovalchuk or Alexei Kovalev? And if Malkin doesn't play with Ovechkin, it's a good bet Pavel Datsyuk will. It's frightening to think of the offensive abilities Russia will have.

(Stick tap to the Washington Post's Capital Insider blog for the link)

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hahah

LOL
this squad is fake… FHR denied that this roster is correct but the official one should be published in the near future.

http://www.championat.ru/hockey/news-257337.html

by prEGnant__tEEns on Jul 7, 2009 11:10 AM EDT reply actions

Oh gotcha, thanks for the heads up (even though I can’t read the Russian to confirm)

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*not just because we only work for 12 minutes a night

by Hooks Orpik on Jul 7, 2009 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions

And yet one of the major issues newspaper and magazine writers have with blogs is that they claim they can’t trust OUR information. Funny.

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by FrankD on Jul 7, 2009 11:22 AM EDT up reply actions

Anything that comes out of Russia on the internet about hockey could be false but yeah I know the WaPo has a lot of Russian connections so I’m a little surprised they put up an unverified report.

I’d still bet that Malkin and Gonchar make the camp though, so even if the info is premature it’s gonna be correct :)

Pensburgh.com -- it's like the Max Talbot of blogs*

*not just because we only work for 12 minutes a night

by Hooks Orpik on Jul 7, 2009 11:29 AM EDT up reply actions