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The Russian hockey team will be strengthened at the World Cup by three other NHL players. After being eliminated in the first round of the playoffs, goalkeeper Ilya Samsonov, defender Dmitry Orlov (both Washington Capitals) and forward Vladimir Tarasenko (St. Louis Blues) are heading to Riga. However, gunner Alexander Ovechkin will not join the national team, and the captain of Washington was finishing the season with several injuries.
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On Monday, the Russian Hockey Federation and the official website of the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) informed about the reinforcements for the national team. However, according to the COVID protocol, all three players will be waiting for a six-day quarantine and daily coronavirus tests after arriving at the World Cup, before they can appear in the team.
It currently has 24 players on the roster (two goalkeepers and 22 skaters), so it can be completed by four more hockey players. The Russians, who start in Latvia under the auspices of the Russian Olympic Committee, led the A-group with the full number of points after the first two matches at the World Championships, and on Monday they had a duel against six-point Slovakia (15.15 CEST).
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Samsonov has his second season in the NHL, and will make his debut at the World Cup. So far, he has represented his country at two World Championships under the age of 20 and one World Championships under the age of 18. Orlov he finished his tenth year in an overseas profile, spending all in the Capitals jersey with which he won the Stanley Cup three years ago.
It will be his fifth start at the World Championships, in his collection he has gold from the World Championships 2014 and bronze from the World Championships 2016, 2017 and 2019. Tarasenko is a player of St. Louis Blues, with whom he won the championship cup in 2019. So far, he has started twice at the World Championships, he won silver in the 2018 World Championship, he also presented himself at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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