Lewis names 23 players to Belarus' Arosa Challenge training camp

Coach of the Belarusian ice hockey national team Dave Lewis has named a 23-player squad for a training camp prior to Arosa Challenge international tournament which is due in Switzerland on 19-20 December.

The roster of Team Belarus includes:

goaltenders: Stepan Goryachevskis (Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk, KHL), Igor Brikun (Gomel), Mikhail Karnaukhov (Dinamo Shinnik Bobruisk, MHL);

defensemen: Andrei Antonov (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, KHL), Vladimir Denisov (Ak Bars Kazan, KHL), Oleg Goroshko, Yevgeny Lisovets, Yevgeny Nogachev, Ilya Shinkevich (all – Dinamo Minsk, KHL), Dmitry Korobov (Atlant Moscow Region, KHL), Nikolai Stasenko (Severstal Cherepovets, KHL);

forwards: Vyacheslav Andryushchenko (Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, KHL), Sergei Drozd, Artur Gavrus, Alexander Kulakov, Pavel Razvadovsky, Andrei Stepanov (all – Dinamo Minsk, KHL), Artyom Kislyi (Toros Neftekamsk, VHL), Andrei Kostitsyn (Sochi, KHL), Yevgeny Kovyrshin (Severstal Cherepovets, KHL), Andrei Stas (CSKA Moscow, KHL), Alexei Yefimenko (SIbir Novosibirsk, KHL), Artyom Volkov (Avangard Omsk, KHL).

Team Belarus will hold training sessions at Minsk Arena on 16, 17 and 18 December. The final roster of Team Belarus for Arosa Challenge will be announced later. According to the schedule of the tournament, Belarus will play its semifinal game against Slovakia on 19 December. Switzerland will go against Norway at the second semifinal game. The medal games will take place on 20 December.

Last year Belarus raised the Arosa Challenge trophy after beating Slovakia 2-1 in the semifinal and seeing off Switzerland 3-2SO in the final.