Ilya Kovalchuk is in the starting line-up for the KHL All-Star Game

The KHL is pleased to announce the results of the fans’ ballot to select the first lines and goaltenders for Team East and Team West in the 2016 KHL All-Star Game.

Following eleven days of voting on the event’s official website, the results are as follows:

Guarding the net for Team West will be Alexei Murygin of Lokomotiv, who polled 8,323 votes; defencemen Mat Robinson (Dynamo Moscow) (8,112) and Nikita Zaitsev (CSKA) (5,087); and forwards Alexander Radulov (CSKA) (16,227), Ilya Kovalchuk (SKA, 9,695) and Matt Ellison (Dinamo Minsk) 8,140).

The starting line-up for Team East: goaltender Alexander Salak (Sibir) (9,661 votes), defensemen Alexander Loginov (Salavat Yulaev) (8,783) and Vladimir Denisov (Traktor) (5,930); forwards Sergei Mozyakin (Metallurg Magnitogorsk) 13,540), Linus Omark (Salavat Yulaev) (7,339) and Vladimir Sobotka (Avangard) (7,020).

The next stage in the selection process will see journalists choose the second lines, and that vote will run from the 23rd to the 30th of December.