After having to settle for bronze at May’s IIHF World Hockey Championship in their home country, Russia will have an opportunity to turn the tables on their Canadian counterparts by claiming gold on enemy soil in September’s World Cup of Hockey.
The nation has amassed talent from both the NHL and the KHL, including two members of the Montreal Canadiens’ defence corps, to take on the world’s best teams.
| Goaltenders |
| Player | League | Current Team |
| Sergei Bobrovsky | NHL | Columbus Blue Jackets |
| Semyon Varlamov | NHL | Colorado Avalanche |
| Andrei Vasilevskiy | NHL | Tampa Bay Lightning |
| Defencemen |
| Player | League | Current Team |
| Alexei Emelin | NHL | Montreal Canadiens |
| Dmitry Kulikov | NHL | Florida Panthers |
| Alexey Marchenko | NHL | Detroit Red Wings |
| Andrei Markov | NHL | Montreal Canadiens |
| Nikita Nesterov | NHL | Tampa Bay Lightning |
| Dmitry Orlov | NHL | Washington Capitals |
| Nikita Zaitsev | NHL | Toronto Maple Leafs |
| Forwards |
| Player | League | Current Team |
| Artem Anisimov | NHL | Chicago Blackhawks |
| Evgeny Dadonov | KHL | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| Pavel Datsyuk | KHL | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| Nikita Kucherov | NHL | Tampa Bay Lightning |
| Nikolay Kulemin | NHL | New York Islanders |
| Evgeny Kuznetsov | NHL | Washington Capitals |
| Evgeni Malkin | NHL | Pittsburgh Penguins |
| Vladislav Namestnikov | NHL | Tampa Bay Lightning |
| Alex Ovechkin | NHL | Washington Capitals |
| Artemi Panarin | NHL | Chicago Blackhawks |
| Vadim Shipachyov | KHL | SKA Saint Petersburg |
| Ivan Telegin | KHL | CSKA Moscow |
| Vladimir Tarasenko | NHL | St. |
