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Team Canada takes on Team Russia in World Cup of Hockey semifinal action on Hockey Night In Canada (CBC, 7 p.m. EST).
This game — like any best-on-best hockey competition — is a game Canada should win, but they’re going up against a goaltender that looks capable of stealing a game in Russia’s Sergei Bobrovsky, who has stopped 91 of 96 (.948) shots faced over three games in this tournament.
Team Canada has outscored its opponents by a combined score of 14-3 and believes there is another level to be reached now that they’re into the semifinal knockout stage. It doesn’t feel possible, but we’d all like to see it.
Team Canada Projected Lineup
| Left Wing | Center | Right Wing |
|---|---|---|
| Brad Marchand | Sidney Crosby | Patrice Bergeron |
| John Tavares | Ryan Getzlaf | Steven Stamkos |
| Logan Couture | Jonathan Toews | Corey Perry |
| Joe Thornton | Ryan O'Reilly | Matt Duchene |
| Left Defence | Right Defence | |
| Alex Pietrangelo | Brent Burns | |
| Marc-Edward Vlasic | Shea Weber | |
| Jay Boumeester | Drew Doughty | |
| Goaltender | ||
| Carey Price | ||
Team Russia Projected Lines
| Left Wing | Center | Right Wing |
|---|---|---|
| Alex Ovechkin | Evgeny Kuznetsov | Vladimir Tarasenko |
| Artemi Panarin | Evgeni Malkin | Nikolai Kulemin |
| Ivan Telegin | Vadim Shipachyov | Evgenii Dadonov |
| Vladislav Namestnikov | Artem Anisimov | Nikita Kucherov |
| Left Defense | Right Defense | |
| Dmitry Orlov | Nikita Zaitsev | |
| Andrei Markov | Alexei Emelin | |
| Dmitry Kulikov | Alexey Marchenko | |
| Goaltenders | ||
| Sergei Bobrovsky | ||
| Semyon Varlamov |
