KOKO MAKES RUSSIAN JUNIOR TEAM
KOKO MAKES RUSSIAN JUNIOR TEAM
Dave Ducharme windsorspitfires.com
PHOTOS: TIM CORNETT
Alexander Khokhlachev has survived final cuts and will represent Team Russia at the upcoming 2012 World Junior Hockey Championship in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta.
Khokhlachev, 18, will be making his first appearance at the tournament.
“I’m extremely proud of KoKo,” GM Warren Rychel said. “It is an honour for him to represent his country. We as an organization wish him the best of luck.”
Russia opens round-robin play on Boxing Day versus Switzerland.
RUSSIA 23-MAN ROSTER
GOALIES
Sergei Kostenko, Kuznetskie Medvedi (RUS/MHL)
Andrei Makarov, Saskatoon Blades (WHL)
Andrei Vasilevski, Tolpar Ufa (RUS/MHL)
DEFENCEMEN
Viktor Antipin, Stalnye Lisy Magnitogorsk (RUS/MHL)
Zakhar Arzamastsev, Metallurg Novokuznetsk (RUS/KHL)
Ildar Isangulov, Tolpar Ufa (RUS/MHL)
Mikhail Naumenkov, Krasnaya Armia Moscow (RUS/MHL)
Nikita Nesterov, Belye Medvedi Chelyabinsk (RUS/MHL)
Igor Ozhiganov, Krasnaya Armia Moscow (RUS/MHL)
Artyom Sergeyev, Val d’Or Foreurs (QMJHL)
Grigori Zheldakov, Spartak Moscow (RUS/MHL)
FORWARDS
Danil Apalkov, Loko Yaroslavl (RUS/MHL)
Sergei Barbashev, CSKA Moscow (RUS/KHL)
Mikhail Grigorenko, Quebec Remparts (QMJHL)
Nikita Gusev, Krasnaya Armia Moscow (RUS/MHL)
Alexander Khokhlachev, Windsor Spitfires (OHL)
Yaroslav Kosov, Metallurg Magnitogorsk (RUS/KHL)
Nikita Kucherov, CSKA Moscow (RUS/KHL)
Pavel Kulikov, Reaktor Nizhnekamsk (RUS/MHL)
Yevgeni Kuznetsov, Traktor Chelyabinsk (RUS/KHL)
Ivan Telegin, Barrie Colts (OHL)
Nail Yakupov, Sarnia Sting (OHL)
Ignat Zemchenko, Severstal Cherepovets (RUS/KHL)
