Russia’s ice hockey team gets a boost with NHL stars who arrived in Sochi and were welcome by Vladislav Tretyak, the head of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia.

      The group features Alexander Ovechkin, Evgeny Malkin, Pavel Datsyuk, Semyon Varlamov, Alexander Syomin, Vyacheslav Voynov, Alexey Emelin, Andrey Markov, Nikolay Kulemin, and Vladimir Tarasenko. The team is still waiting for Valery Nichushkin who could miss the training session.

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