JHL ALUMNI AT THE OLYMPICS
Olympic men’s ice hockey tournament will take place in South Korea from 14th to 25th February. Team Russia coaching staff led by Oleg Znarok has named the roster for Pyongchang. Russia will face USA, Slovenia and Slovakia in round robin.
Team Russia’s roster boasts 14 Junior Hockey League alumni.
Goaltenders
Igor Shestyorkin (22 years old, SKA St. Petersburg)
84 games for JHC Spartak Moscow and SKA-1946 St. Petersburg (4 JHL seasons)
51 wins in regulation, 15 shutouts, Goals Against Average – 1.82. Save Percentage – .934 on average per game
2017 Gagarin Cup champion
2014 Kharlamov Cup champion
JHC silver medalist (2013, 2015)
2014 JHL Challenge Cup champion
2015 World Junior silver medalist
IIHF World Championship bronze medalist (2016, 2017)
KHL All-Star Game participant (2017, 2018)
Ilya Sorokin (22 years old, CSKA Moscow)
47 games for Kuznetskie Medvedi and Krasnaya Armiya Moscow (3 JHL seasons)
16 wins in regulation, 3 shutouts, Goals Against Average – 2.58. Save Percentage – .913 on average per game
2015 World Junior silver medalist
IIHF World Championship bronze medalist (2016, 2017)
Top KHL goaltender of the 2015-16 season
KHL All-Star Game participant (2016, 2017, 2018)
Defensemen
Artyom Zub (22 years old, SKA St. Petersburg)
129 for Amurskie Tigry Khabarovsk (5 JHL seasons)
6 goals, 14 assists, 20 points, minus-13
KHL rookie of the month (2015-16)
2017 Gagarin Cup champion
2017 IIHF World Championship bronze medalist
Vladislav Gavrikov (22 years old, SKA St. Petersburg)
130 for Loko Yaroslavl (4 JHL seasons)
8 goals, 21 assists, 29 points, plus-42
2017 KHL bronze medalist
2017 IIHF World Championship bronze medalist
2015 World Juniors best defenseman
KHL rookie of December (2015-16)
KHL top defenseman of March (2016-17)
Alexei Marchenko (26 years old, CSKA Moscow)
120 for Krasnaya Armiya Moscow (3 JHL seasons)
25 goals, 82 assists, 107 points, plus-72
2011 Kharlamov Cup Champion
2011 JHL top defenseman of the season
Most points among defensemen in the 2010-11 JHL season (38 points)
2010 JHL Challenge Cup champion
2014 AHL All-Star Game participant
2016 IIHF World Championship bronze medalist
Bogdan Kiselevich (27 years old, CSKA Moscow)
40 for Almaz Cherepovets (3 JHL seasons)
7 goals, 11 assists, 18 points, plus-15
2014 KHL All-Star Game participant
2016 Gagarin Cup runner-up
2017 IIHF World Championship bronze medalist
Nikita Nesterov (24 years old, CSKA Moscow)
115 games for Belye Medvedi Chelyabinsk (4 JHL seasons)
23 goals, 43 assists, 66 points, plus-2
2011 U18 IIHF World Championship bronze medalist
2012 World Junior silver medalist
2013 World Junior bronze medalist
2015 AHL All-Star Game participant
2018 KHL All-Star Game participant
Forwards
Sergei Andronov (28 years old, CSKA Moscow)
23 games for Krasnaya Armiya Moscow (2 JHL seasons)
9 goals, 7 assists, 16 points
2011 Kharlamov Cup champion
2007 U18 IIHF World Championship champion
2009 World Junior bronze medalist
2017 IIHF World Championship bronze medalist
Mikhail Grigorenko (23 years old, CSKA Moscow)
53 games for Krasnaya Armiya (1 JHL season)
18 goals, 22 assists, 40 points
2011 Kharlamov Cup champion
2011 U18 IIHF World Championship bronze medalist
2012 CHL Rookie of the year
2012 Most points in QMJHL (85 points)
2012 QMJHL Rookie of the year
2012 World Junior silver medalist
2013 World Junior bronze medalist
2017 IIHF World Championship bronze medalist
Kirill Kaprizov (20 years old, CSKA Moscow)
74 games for Kuznetskie Medvedi (3 JHL seasons)
27 goals, 25 assists, 52 points
KHL All-Star Game participant (2016, 2017, 2018)
2016 World Junior silver medalist
2017 World Junior bronze medalist
2017 World Juniors best forward (12 points)
Sergei Kalinin (26 years old, SKA St. Petersburg)
67 games for Omskie Yastreby (2 JHL seasons)
16 goals, 27 assists, 43 points
2010 JHL Challenge Cup participant
2011 World Junior champion
2014 IIHF World Championship gold medalist
2016 IIHF World Championship bronze medalist
Nikolai Prokhorkin (24 years old, SKA St. Petersburg)
101 games for Krasnaya Armiya Moscow (4 JHL seasons)
43 goals, 53 assists, 96 points
2011 Kharlamov Cup champion
Kharlamov Cup runner-up (2012, 2014)
2013 Spengler Cup runner-up
2014 KHL All-Star Game participant
2017 Gagarin Cup champion
Alexander Barabanov (23 years old, SKA St. Petersburg)
208 games for СКА-1946 (5 JHL seasons)
102 goals, 105 assists, 207 points
2014 World Junior bronze medalist
2013 Junior Hockey League regular season top goal-scorer (39 goals)
2013 JHL Challenge Cup participant
2013 JHL top goal-scorer
2015 Kharlamov Cup runner-up
2014 World Junior bronze medalist
Gagarin Cup champion (2015, 2017)
2017 IIHF World Championship bronze medalist
Nikita Gusev (25 years old, SKA St. Petersburg)
160 games for Krasnaya Armiya Moscow and Amurskie Tigry Khabarovsk (3 JHL seasons)
103 goals, 152 assists, 255 points
JHL Challenge Cup participant (2010, 2011, 2012)
JHL Challenge Cup champion (2010, 2012)
2011 Kharlamov Cup champion
JHL Most Valubale Player (2011,2012)
2012 Kharlamov Cup runner-up
Most points and goals in Kharlamov Cup Playoffs (2011, 2012)
Vitaly Davydov Trophy (2011, 2012)
2012 World Junior silver medalist
KHL All-Star Game participant (2015, 2016, 2018)
2017 IIHF World Championship bronze medalist
2017 Gagarin Cup champion
