Press releases

29 Jan 2015

Dave Lewis names Team Belarus roster for Metal Euro Ice Hockey Challenge

MINSK, 29 January (BelTA) - Head coach of the Belarusian national ice hockey team Dave Lewis has called up 28 players to the training camp ahead of Metal Euro Ice Hockey Challenge that is due to take place in Denmark on 5-7 February, BelTA has learned.

The roster of Team Belarus includes:

goaltenders: Igor Brikun (Gomel), Dmitry Milchakov (HC Dinamo Minsk; KHL), Vitaly Belinsky (HC Yunost Minsk), Mikhail Karnaukhov (HC Dinamo Molodechno);

defensemen: Christian Henkel (HC Yunost Minsk), Nikita Kryskin (HC Dizel Penza; VHL), Andrei Karev, Roman Dostanko, Ivan Usenko (all – HC Shakhtyor Soligorsk), Alexander Yeronov, Mikhail Khoromando, Nikita Ustinenko (both – HC Gomel), Maxim Kamenkov (HC Neman Grodno);

forwards: Pavel Musiyenko, Kirill Brikun, Yevgeny Khuzeyev, Andrei Kolosov, Vyacheslav Fadeyev (all – HC Gomel), Anton Yeliseyenko (HC Metallurg Zhlobin), Viktor Andryshchenko, Artyom Demkov, Alexander Usenko, Roman Malinovsky (all – HC Shakhtyor Soligorsk), Alexander Malyavko, Sergei Malyavko, Konstantin Lastovetsky (all – HC Neman Grodno), Konstantin Zakharov, Alexander Kitarov (HC Dinamo Minsk; KHL).

Team Belarus will spend several days on training sessions and then leave for Copenhagen, Denmark to compete with the teams of Denmark, France and Norway at Metal Euro Ice Hockey Challenge.

The schedule of games in Copenhagen:

5 February: Belarus vs. Norway, France vs. Denmark;

6 February: Norway vs. France, Denmark vs. Belarus;

7 February: France vs. Belarus, Denmark vs. Norway.