Here are the Team Russia roster projections for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
Forwards:
First Line:
Nikita Kucherov | Evgeni Malkin | Alex Ovechkin
Second Line:
Vladimir Tarasenko | Pavel Datsyuk | Evgeny Kuznetsov
Third Line:
Nikolay Kulemin | Artemi Panarin | Artem Anisimov
Fourth Line:
Vadim Shipachev | Evgenii Dadonov | Vladislav Namestnikov
Extra Skater(AKA 13th Forward): Ivan Telegin
Defence
First Pairing:
Dmitry Kulikov | Andrei Markov
Second Pairing:
Nikita Zaitsev | Dmitry Orlov
Third Pairing:
Alexey Marchenko | Alexei Emelin
Extra Defenceman: Nikita Nesterov
Goalies:
No. 1 Sergei Bobrovsky
No. 2 Semyon Varlamov
No. 3 Andrei Vasilevskiy
