Alexei Yashin News and Interviews

Team Jagr won the KHL All-Star game in Minsk with a 11-8 score, repeating last year's victory in the Red Square. The match was played in front of more than 15,000 spectators, including Wayne Gretzky and Mark Messier.

Sergei Zubov, Andrei Mezin and Alexei Yashin have been named Team Yashin's players of the game, while for Team Jagr the honors went to Karri Ramo, Marcel Hossa and Ville Peltonen.

Team Yashin - Team Jagr - 8:11 (1:4, 5:3, 2:4)
1:0 - Zaripov (Babchuk), 02:05
1:1 - Hossa (Strbak), 07:32
1:2 - Thoresen (Kukkonen, Peltonen), 11:59
1:3 - Hudler (Jagr, Weinhandl), 13:32
1:4 - Weinhandl (Jagr, Hudler), 14:52
2:4 - Yashin, 21:00
2:5 - Hudler (Weinhandl), 26:14
2:6 - Strbak (Jagr), 31:15
3:6 - Fedorov (Radulov), 31:59
4:6 - Sushinsky (Yashin), 34:52
4:7 - Hossa (Stumpel, Radivojevic), 35:10
5:7 - Zubov (Babchuk, Tereshchenko), 38:33
6:7 - Sushinsky (Yashin), 39:34
6:8 - Vasicek (Peltonen), 40:33
6:9 - Peltonen (Hossa, Kukkonen), 44:27
6:10 - Thoresen (Rachunek), 45:04
6:11 - Jagr (Gudler, Kukkonen), 49:51
7:11 - Babchuk (Sushinsky), 51:47
8:11 - Morozov, 54:30

Before the gala match, Team Yashin secured the Skills Competitions relay with a 5-3 score.

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All-Star Game rosters released

The complete KHL All-Star Game rosters have been released today. The event will be held in Minsk, Belarus, on January 30th.

This is how the rosters look like:

Team Yashin (Russian stars)

Goalkeepers: Georgy Gelashvili (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl); Andrei Mezin (Dynamo Minsk)

Defenders: Sergei Zubov (SKA St. Petersburg); Ilya Nikulin (Ak Bars Kazan); Dmitriy Kalinin (Salavat Yulaev Ufa); Anton Babchuk (Avangard Omsk); Konstantin Korneev (CSKA Moscow); Vitaly Atyushov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk)

Forwards: Alexei Yashin (SKA St. Petersburg); Alexander Radulov (Salavat Yulaev Ufa); Alexei Morozov (Ak Bars Kazan); Danis Zaripov (Ak Bars Kazan); Sergei Fedorov (Metallurg Magnitogorsk); Sergei Mozyakin (Atlant Mytischi); Alexei Tereschenko (Ak Bars Kazan); Sergei Zinoviev (Salavat Yulaev Ufa); Denis Parshin (CSKA Moscow)

Team Jagr (International Stars)

Goalkeepers: Karri Ramo (Avangard Omsk); Michael Garnett (HC MVD)

Defenders: Kevin Dallman (Barys Astana); Sandis Ozolinsh (Dinamo Riga);Martin Strbak (HC MVD); Lasse Kukkonen (Avangard Omsk); Karel Rachunek (Dynamo Moscow); Jaroslav Obsut (Spartak Moscow)

Forwards: Jaromir Jagr (Avangard Omsk); Marcel Hossa (Dinamo Riga); Mattias Weinhandl (Dynamo Moscow); Patrick Thoresen (Salavat Yulaev Ufa); Josef Vasicek (Lokomotiv Yaroslavl); Chris Simon (Vityaz Chekhov); Jiri Hudler (Dynamo Moscow); Ville Peltonen (Dinamo Minsk); Jozef Stumpel (Barys Astana)

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Fedorov, Babchuk, Kalinin, Simon added to All-Star Game roster
KHL All Star Game's starting lineup announced

More than half of a season has passed in the KHL and it is time to tally up an interim total.

Below are Top 5 lists of goal scorers, assists, points and plus/minus leaders. Among the highlights are Marcel Hossa of Dinamo Riga topping the scorers rating, Maxim Spiridonov proving his worth after a few bad seasons with 20 goals in 40 games, SKA linemates Maxim Sushinskiy and Alexei Yashin being assists leaders and Sergei Fedorov being the 3rd in plus/minus rating.

Team Russia head coach Vyacheslav Bykov in an interview to Sport-Express explained why he didn't invite Alexei Yashin to the national team.

Bykov: "Why didn't we include Yashin in our Olympics' candidate list? We need different energy from the one he displayed in the Eurotour, where he disappointed us. We have no conflicts with Alexei. I know that it made him feel bad but that's life."

Most likely Yashin won't play at the Olympics in Vancouver.

Translated by RussianHockeyFans.com