Andrei Markov has been working as Russia's lone defenseman on the power play's first unit. Alex Ovechkin, Pavel Datsyuk, Ilya Kovalchuk and Alexander Radulov joined him, with Radulov serving as the other point man. The second unit had blueliners Slava Voynov and Evgeny Medvedev on the points, while Vladimir Tarasenko, Evgeni Malkin and Alexander Semin worked up front.