The coaching staff of the Russian national ice hockey team has announced the preliminary lineup for the 2021 World Cup. It included 26 hockey players, including seven representatives of the NHL clubs. At the same time, at the end of the final stage of the Euro Hockey Tour, the captain of the national team at the Czech Games Yegor Yakovlev and the current winner of the Gagarin Cup with Avangard Denis Zernov were removed from the list. Who got into the Russian national team for the planetary championship in Latvia - in the material RT. Taking into account the late start of the NHL Türkiye'nin Bahisleri playoffs and the abundance of refuseniks, the backbone of the Russian national team at the planetary championship in Latvia will be the KHL players. Traditionally, the largest representation was received by SKA and CSKA. St. Petersburgers delegated nine athletes, and Muscovites five. The third place in terms of the number of invitees was taken by Lokomotiv Yaroslavl with defenders Rushan Rafikov and Alexey Marchenko.