Russian juniors will play matches with Canadian Hockey League teams

The Russian juniors will play with the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) teams. This was announced on June 12 by the agent of the players of the National Hockey League (NHL). Dan Milstein.

He noted that the Russian team will include athletes aged 16-17 from the clubs CSKA (Moscow), Lokomotiv (Yaroslavl), Siberia (Novosibirsk), Torpedo (Nizhny Novgorod), Avangard (Omsk) and Traktor (Chelyabinsk), and the head coach Mikhail Deev has been appointed.

"This is a very strong and talented team," Milstein emphasized in an interview with the RG portal.

The meetings will be held in Toronto and Charlottetown from June 14th to 19th. A series of games between the junior team of the Russian Federation and the CHL teams have been held annually since 2003. The last episode took place in 2019, Sport-Express clarifies.

In May, the Canadian national team became the hockey World champion for the 28th time. Canadian athletes beat the German team in the World Cup final with a score of 5:2.