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Belarus Olympic hockey roster has familiar names

By Helene Elliott
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Former Ducks defenseman Ruslan Salei, now with the Colorado Avalanche and recovering from back surgery, is among four NHL players named to the provisional roster of Belarus for the Vancouver Olympics hockey tournament.

Belarus was the first of the 12 participating teams to announce its roster. Russia will go next, on Friday, followed by defending champion Sweden on Sunday.

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Salei, a hard-hitting defenseman, was named to his third Olympic team. Joining him from NHL teams are forward Mikhail Grabovsky of the Toronto Maple Leafs and brothers Andrei and Sergei Kostitsyn of the Montreal Canadiens.

Here’s a link to the news release from the International Ice Hockey Federation. It includes a schedule of each roster announcement.

-- Helene Elliott

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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