Hockey is back! Say what you will be you’re excited. Say what you want about the World Cup of Hockey, but it’s high caliber hockey and that’s all we ever want to see. The first game of the pre-tournament is today with New York Islanders forward Nikolai Kulemin starting for Team Russia.
Team Russia have are top heavy. With huge talent up front with the likes of captain Alex Ovechkin, Evgeny Malkin, and Vladimir Tarasenko. They have solid goaltending with Sergei Bobrovsky and Semyon Varlamov.
But their blueline is what Anne Robinson would call “the weakest link”.