Andrei Markov Called to Russia's World Cup Roster

These buddies may be rivals appear September -- Markov will play for Aggregation Russia at the
2016 World Cup of Hockey and Subban is broadly accepted to be called to the Canadian squad.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz Andrei Markov is one of three defencemen who will play for Aggregation Russia at the World Cup of Hockey after this year.

Markov was called to Russia's basic 16-man agenda Wednesday. He represented his built-in country at the endure World Cup of Hockey, captivated in 2004, as able-bodied as at the 2010 and 2014 Olympics and was allotment of the gold medal-winning band at the 2008 World Championships.

Markov is abutting by the Panthers’ Dmitry Kulikov and Washington’s Dmitry Orlov on the dejected line. Alex Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin, Pavel Datsyuk and Nikita Kucherov aswell fabricated the team.

Team Canada is accepted to bare its agenda about 4 p.m. Wednesday. The clash begins Sept. 17 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.