Predicting the Russian Olympic Committee's 2022 roster without NHLers

As everyone knows by now, the National Hockey League won't be sending their players to the 2022 Winter Olympics due to COVID-19 causing 50 games to be postponed. The NHL is going to use some of their scheduled Olympic break to make up those games.

Over the last couple days, I've predicted what rosters would look like for Canada and the United States without NHL players, and today, I'm going to take a shot at putting together a roster for the Russian Olympic Committee.

Each Olympic roster has 25 players, usually broken down into fourteen forwards, eight defencemen, and three goaltenders.

Forwards (14)
Pavel Datsyuk (Free agent)
Ilya Kovalchuk (Free agent)
Vadim Shipachev (Moscow Dynamo - KHL)
Sergei Tolchinsky (Avangard Omsk - KHL)
Stanislav Galiev (Moscow Dynamo - KHL)
Anton Burdasov (St. Petersburg SKA - KHL)
Nikolai Goldobin (Magnitogorsk Metallurg - KHL)
Konstantin Okulov (CSKA Moscow - KHL)
Alexander Khokhlachev (Moscow Spartak - KHL)
Anton Slepyshev (CSKA Moscow - KHL)
Mikhail Grigorenko (CSKA Moscow - KHL)
Nikita Gusev (St. Petersburg SKA - KHL)
Sergei Plotnikov (CSKA Moscow - KHL)
Vitali Kravtsov (Chelyabinsk Traktor - KHL)

Defencemen (8)
Nikita Nesterov (CSKA Moscow - KHL)
Slava Voynov (Moscow Dynamo - KHL)
Andrei Sergeyev (Moscow Dynamo - KHL)
Alexei Marchenko (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - KHL)
Ivan Mischenko (HK Sochi - KHL)
Nikita Tryamkin (Yekaterinburg Automobilist - KHL)
Artyom Zemchyonok (Magnitogorsk Metallurg - KHL)
Ila Khokhlov (Cherepovets Severstal - KHL)

Goaltenders (3)
Ivan Bocharov (Moscow Dynamo - KHL)
Alexander Samonov (SKA St. Petersburg - KHL)
Yaroslav Askarov (SKA St. Petersburg - KHL)

The Russian Olympic Committee will be in Group B for the 2022 Winter Olympics where they'll face Switzerland on February 9th, Denmark on February 11th, and the Czechs on February 12th.

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