According to the press service of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation, Valery Bragin's wards will go on the ice in the following combinations:

- goalkeepers: Samonov (Fedotov); 

- the first link: Rafikov - A. Marchenko, K. Marchenko - Shipachev - Chibisov;

- the second link: Samorukov - Lyamkin, Kuzmenko - Morozov - Korshkov;

- the third link: Yakovlev - Galenyuk, Tolchinsky - Zernov - Soshnikov;

- the fourth link: Antipin, Kadeikin, Mamin - Karnaukhov - Voronkov.

The meeting will take place on December 20 in Moscow.

The beginning is at 15:30 Moscow time.

Earlier, Tretyak called the lack of the Russian national team's game in the match with the Czech Republic at the Channel One Cup.