This is going to be short, sweet, and straight to the point. Russia has been doing well recently, garnering top seed headed into the medal rounds and, while losing to a tough Czechoslovakia team, still looks forward to the rest of the tournament. But there is a position change in the trio that runs Russia.

No, it's not me. No, it's not Mark. Storm has done fantastic things for Russia. He is the reason I was active on the site the first few weeks at all, and if it had not been for him caring about the IIHF at all, I probably would have left the IIHF be. But I didn't and took over for Storm while he did his own thing and now, that thing is a beauty. Storm helped GM a Challenge Cup winner, and is crucial to the rebuilding of the great team. They're lost some great players in New England, and I'm sure Storm can do a great job building them up. But that's time consuming and the Wolfpack deserve every bit of his attention. And Earnest Ciarelli should be full-steam for whatever team he signs with in the Transfers market, and we both realized that Russia won't be needing goalies for a long time. So Storm has stepped down as IIHF Head Coach.

This means a new person has taken the reins as Russia's Head Coach. This should be an easy guess who will fill the shoes since I'm GM. I present to you, your new Russia Head Coach, RaiN! He's a great guy, he deserves some management experience because he looks like a premiere member of the league just waiting to blossom, and Mark and I love this kid. He's fantastic and will serve well as Head Coach.

I'll let him field questions here for some WC.

I also wanted to announce our Captaincy for the coming season. Our great group needs some player leadership, and we've found some. They're a great group of people and I trust that they'll motivate our locker room and be representative of us and make us proud around the league. Without further ado, your captains for Russia:

Alternate: Roy Razin
Alternate: Yuri Boyka
Captain: Chernika Banananov

These three players are fantastic people too have in the locker room and are fantastic on the ice. I know they'll do well in anything they do and that should include making this great country proud. They're brothers to me (and sister for Banananov), and I wouldn't trade these players for the world. I'm glad to have this bunch of people leading the team to success over the next few seasons.