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Datsyuk, Kovalchuk lead Russian Olympic hockey team

Ice Hockey - Winter Olympics Day 12 - Finland v Russia

SOCHI, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 19: Ilya Kovalchuk #71 of Russia celebrates after scoring a first-period goal against Finland during the Men’s Ice Hockey Quarterfinal Playoff on Day 12 of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics at Bolshoy Ice Dome on February 19, 2014 in Sochi, Russia. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)

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MOSCOW (AP) -- Former NHL players Pavel Datsyuk and Ilya Kovalchuk will lead the hockey team of the ''Olympic Athletes from Russia’’ at the Pyeongchang Games.

It’s the fifth Olympics for both Datsyuk and Kovalchuk. They will be on a team drawn entirely from the Russia-based Kontinental Hockey League.

The Russian roster - for a team which must play in neutral uniforms under the Olympic flag - also features former Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov, who left the NHL following his arrest on felony domestic violence charges in 2014.

Five Russian players had failed to pass International Olympic Committee vetting imposed as part of Russia’s punishment for doping offenses at the 2014 Olympics.

However, officials said only one of the five, former Pittsburgh Penguins winger Sergei Plotnikov, would have made the roster.

The full roster:

Goaltenders
Vasily Koshechkin
Ilya Sorokin
Igor Shestyorkin

Defensemen
Vladislav Gavrikov
Dinar Khafizullin
Bogdan Kiselevich
Alexei Marchenko
Nikita Nesterov
Slava Voynov
Artyom Zub
Andrei Zubarev

Forwards
Sergei Andronov
Alexander Barabanov
Mikhail Grigorenko
Nikita Gusev
Pavel Datsyuk
Ilya Kablukov
Sergei Kalinin
Kirill Kaprizov
Ilya Kovalchuk
Sergei Mozyakin
Nikolai Prokhorkin
Ivan Telegin
Vadim Shipachyov
Sergei Shirokov