World Cup: Team Canada vs Team Russia lines, schedule and how to watch

There are three matchups on the docket today, and they happen to be the last pre-tournament games before the real action gets underway in Toronto on September 17th. Carey Price, Tomas Plekanec, Shea Weber, Andrei Markov and Alexei Emelin will hit the ice tonight for their respective countries.

Game 1: Team Czech Republic vs Team North America

The puck drops at 3:00 PM EDT, at the Consol Energy Centre in Pittsburgh, PA.

How To Watch:
In Canada (French): TVA Sports
In Canada (English): Sportsnet
In the United States: ESPN3
Stream: Watch ESPN

We’ll update the rosters as soon as the coaches release the starting lineups.

Team Czech Republic Projected Lineup

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Jakub Voracek	Tomas Plekanec	Milan Michalek
David Pastrnak	Martin Hanzal	Ondrej Palat
Ales Hemsky	Radek Faksa	Michael Frolik
Dmitrij Jaskin	Roman Cervenka	Michal Birner

Left Defense	Right Defense
Andrej Sustr	Jakub Nakladal
Roman Polak	Michal Kempny
Michal Jordan	Zbynek Michalek

Goaltenders

Michael Neuvirth

Petr Mrazek

Team North America Projected Lineup

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Jonathan Drouin	Connor McDavid	Mark Scheifele
Johnny Gaudreau	Jack Eichel	Brandon Saad
Auston Matthews	Ryan Nugent-Hopkins	Nathan MacKinnon
Dylan Larkin	Sean Couturier	Vincent Trochek

Left Defense	Right Defense
Morgan Rielly	Aaron Ekblad
Shayne Gostisbehere	Colton Parayko
Ryan Murray	Seth Jones

Goaltenders

John Gibson

Matt Murray

Game 2: Team Sweden vs Team Europe

The puck drops at 7:00 PM EDT, at Verizon Centre in Washington D.C.

How To Watch:

In Canada (French): TVA Sports2
In Canada (English): Sportsnet
In the United States: ESPN3
Stream: Watch ESPN

Team Europe Projected Lineup

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Mikkel Boedker	Anze Kopitar	Mats Zuccarello
Tomas Tatar	Frans Nielsen	Marian Hossa
Marian Gaborik	Leon Draisaitl	Nino Niederreiter
Tobias Rieder	Pierre-Edouard Bellemare	Jannik Hansen

Left Defense	Right Defense
Zdeno Chara	Roman Josi
Andrej Sekera	Mark Streit
Christian Ehrhoff	Lucas Sbisa

Goaltenders

Jaroslav Halak

Tomas Greiss

Team Sweden Projected Lineup

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Filip Forsberg	Nicklas Backstrom	Patric Hornqvist
Daniel Sedin	Henrik Sedin	Loui Eriksson
Gabriel Landeskog	Carl Soderberg	Rickard Rakell
Carl Hagelin	Marcus Kruger	Jakob Silfverberg

Left Defense	Right Defense
Mattias Ehkolm	Erik Karlsson
Victor Hedman	Anton Stralman
Oliver Ekman-Larsson	Niklas Hjalmarsson

Goaltenders

Henrik Lundqvist

Jacob Markstrom

Game 3: Team Canada vs Team Russia

The puck drops at 7:30 PM EDT, at Verizon Centre in Washington D.C.

How To Watch:
In Canada (French): TVA Sports
In Canada (English): Sportsnet
In the United States: ESPN2
Stream: Watch ESPN

Team Canada Projected Lineup

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Brad Marchand	Sidney Crosby	Patrice Bergeron
John Tavares	Ryan Getzlaf	Steven Stamkos
Logan Couture	Jonathan Toews	Corey Perry
Matt Duchene	Claude Giroux	Joe Thornton

Left Defense	Right Defense
Marc-Edouard Vlasic	Shea Weber
Jay Bouwmeester	Drew Doughty
Alex Pietrangelo	Brent Burns

Goaltenders

Carey Price

Braden Holtby

Team Russia Projected Lineup

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Nikita Kucherov	Evgeny Kuznetsov	Alex Ovechkin
Vladimir Tarasenko	Evgeni Malkin	Nikolay Kulemin
Evgenii Dadonov	Vadim Shipachyov	Artemi Panarin
Vladislav Namestnikov	Artem Anisimov	Ivan Telegin

Left Defense	Right Defense
Nikita Zaitsev	Dmitry Orlov
Alexei Emelin	Nikita Nesterov
Alexey Marchenko	Dmitry Kulikov

Goaltenders

Semyon Varlamov

Andrei Vasilevskiy