Pyotr Vorobyov will be the interim head coach during the World Cup

SKA-Neva head coach Pyotr Vorobyov will become SKA's first team interim head coach during the World Cup of Hockey. Oleg Znarok, the head Russian national team coach as well as managing SKA, will take charge of Russia. We note that Oleg Znarok was a player under Pyotr Vorobyov's leadership with Dinamo Riga for eight seasons, and they both worked together with the Latvian national team.

Coach Igor Efimov, who worked with Pyotr Vorobyov last season in SKA-1946, will head SKA-Neva in this period.

The World Cup of Hockey will take place in Toronto, Canada, between the 17th of September and the 1st of October.