{"id":710844,"date":"2026-06-18T05:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710844\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:18:14","slug":"this-is-the-full-roster-of-players-and-coaches-participating-in-the-match-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710844\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the full roster of players and coaches participating in the \u2018Match of the Year\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Ovechkin<\/a> won\u2019t be the only Washington Capitals player participating in this year\u2019s Match of the Year<\/a> \u2014 an exhibition bringing together NHL and KHL stars to raise money for charity.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the game\u2019s website released the full roster<\/a> of players, coaches, and legends participating, and Capitals\u2019 winger Aliaksei Protas<\/a> will be suiting up for the game. Protas, who Tom Wilson said was Ovechkin\u2019s personal chauffeur during the past season<\/a>, has experience both in the NHL and KHL during his career, playing one season with the KHL\u2019s Dinamo Minsk.<\/p>\n

Other former Capitals participating include Dmitry Orlov<\/a> and Dmitrij Ja\u0161kin. Viktor Kozlov will be a coach while Ilya Kovalchuk and Sergei Fedorov, will serve as general managers.<\/p>\n

NHL stars Evgeni Malkin<\/a> and Kirill Kaprizov<\/a> will take the ice, as well as two members of the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>\u2018 Stanley Cup champion team: Andrei Svechnikov<\/a> and Alexander Nikishin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The goaltender Ovechkin broke the NHL goals record against<\/a>, Ilya Sorokin<\/a>, will also suit up for the game.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s match will take place at SKA Arena in St. Petersburg on July 25. In a twist, players from the KHL and NHL will not play each other. Team Panarin and Team Sergachev will determine their rosters through a draft. The NHL players defeated the KHL stars 15-3 in the 2025 iteration of the game.<\/p>\n

See the commercial Alex Ovechkin filmed to promote the match.<\/a><\/p>\n

Alex Ovechkin jokes about pending decision on NHL future, ribs Wayne Gretzky for being second in goals in \u2018Match of the Year\u2019 commercial<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Full Match of the Year roster
\nForwards<\/p>\n

Alex Ovechkin (Washington Capitals<\/a>)
Artemi Panarin<\/a> (Los Angeles Kings<\/a>)
Pavel Buchnevich<\/a> (St. Louis Blues<\/a>)
Kirill Kaprizov (Minnesota Wild<\/a>)
Vasily Podkolzin<\/a> (Edmonton Oilers<\/a>)
Vladimir Tkachev (Avangard Omsk),
Vadim Shipachev (Salavat Yulaev Ufa)
Alexander Zharovsky (Salavat Yulaev Ufa)
Prokhor Poltapov (CSKA Moscow)
Matvei Michkov<\/a> (Philadelphia Flyers<\/a>)
Dmitry Silantyev (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
Dmitrij Ja\u0161kin (Ak Bars Kazan)
Artem Galimov (Ak Bars Kazan)
Kirill Marchenko<\/a> (Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>)
Vitali Kravtsov (Traktor Chelyabinsk)
Konstantin Okulov (Avangard Omsk)
Marat Khusnutdinov<\/a> (Boston Bruins<\/a>)
Nikolay Goldobin (SKA Saint Petersburg)
Mikhail Maltsev (HC Spartak Moscow)
Alexander Barabanov (Ak Bars Kazan)
Egor Surin<\/a> (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
Maxim Shalunov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
Alex Radulov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
Aliaksei Protas (Washington Capitals)
Andrei Kuzmenko<\/a> (Los Angeles Kings)
Valeri Nichushkin<\/a> (Colorado Avalanche<\/a>)
Andrei Svechnikov (Carolina Hurricanes)
Evgeni Malkin (Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Defenseman<\/p>\n

Vladislav Gavrikov<\/a> (New York Rangers<\/a>)
Alexander Romanov<\/a> (New York Islanders<\/a>)
Ilya Lyubushkin<\/a> (Dallas Stars<\/a>)
Mikhail Sergachev<\/a> (Utah Mammoth<\/a>)
Dmitry Simashev (Utah Mammoth)
Dmitry Orlov (San Jose Sharks<\/a>)
Ivan Provorov<\/a> (Columbus Blue Jackets)
Daniil Pylenkov (Dynamo Moscow)
Damir Sharipzyanov (Avangard Omsk)
Pavel Mintyukov<\/a> (Anaheim Ducks<\/a>)
Nikita Lyamkin (Ak Bars Kazan)
Grigory Dronov (Traktor Chelyabinsk)
Rushan Rafikov (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl)
Egor Yakovlev (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)
Alexander Nikishin (Carolina Hurricanes).<\/p>\n

Goaltenders<\/p>\n

Igor Shesterkin<\/a> (New York Rangers)
Sergei Bobrovsky<\/a> (Florida Panthers<\/a>)
Nikita Serebryakov (Avangard Omsk)
Ilya Sorokin<\/a> (New York Islanders)
Yaroslav Askarov<\/a> (San Jose Sharks)
Maxim Dorozhko (Amur Khabarovsk)<\/p>\n

Coaches<\/p>\n

Igor Nikitin
Oleg Znarok
Anvar Gatiyatulin
Igor Larionov
Viktor Kozlov
Andrei Razin <\/p>\n

General managers<\/p>\n

Ilya Kovalchuk
Sergei Fedorov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Ovechkin won\u2019t be the only Washington Capitals player participating in this year\u2019s Match of the Year \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-710844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}