Plane crash in Russia involves KHL team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl

[nightwanker]

Plane crash in Russia involves KHL team
Wednesday, 09.07.2011 / 11:04 AM / News
NHL.com

A plane crash near the city of Yaroslavl in Central Russia has claimed the lives of at least 43 people, according to Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry. The majority of victims are believed to be members of the Kontinental Hockey League club, Lokomotiv.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=587792
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Lokomotiv_Yaroslavl_plane_crash

 

[LukeEl]

I know Bettman isn't heavily involved with the KHL but is he practising Satanic black magic or something. A lot of hockey players are dying these days.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

I'm interested to see who is on this squad. The KHL has some MAJOR stars. What a tragedy.

EDIT: Ex Wild star and Gaborik good friend Pavol Demitra, for starters! RIP. This is just terrible.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Defender Vitali Anikienko, 24 (Ukraine)
* Defender Mikhail Balandin, 31 (Russia)
* Left winger Alexander Vasyunov, 23 (Russia)
* Centre Josef Vašíček, 30 (Czech Republic)
* Goalkeeper Alexander Vyukhin, 38 (Ukraine)
* Right winger Alexander Galimov, 26 (Russia)[9]
* Centre Pavol Demitra, 36 (Slovakia)[10]
* Defender Robert Dietrich, 25 (Germany)
* Defender Marat Kalimulin, 23 (Russia)
* Right winger Alexander Kalyanin, 23 (Russia)
* Right winger Andrei Kiryukhin, 24 (Russia)
* Centre Nikita Klyukin, 21 (Russia)
* Goaltender Stefan Liv, 30 (Sweden)
* Centre Jan Marek, 31 (Czech Republic)
* Left winger Sergei Ostapchuk, 21 (Belarus)
* Defender Karel Rachůnek, 32 (Czech Republic)
* Defender Ruslan Salei, 36 (Belarus)
* Defender Kārlis Skrastinš, 37 (Latvia)
* Striker Pavel Snurnitsyn, 19 (Russia)
* Centre Daniil Sobchenko, 20 (Ukraine)
* Left winger Ivan Tkachenko, 31 (Russia)
* Defender Pavel Trakhanov, 33 (Russia)
* Centre Gennady Churilov, 24 (Russia)
* Defender Max Shuvalov, 18
* Left winger Artem Yarchuk, 21 (Russia)
* Head coach Brad McCrimmon, 52 (Canada

A lot of familiar names there to hockey fans. It's just been one bad off season for the game of stick.

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Sources say all players on the team plus four junior players and all team staff were killed. The only survivor is a crewmember.

 

[STDiva]

Holy shit.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

I wish Demitra would've stayed with the Wild. He was one of my all time favorites. Met him a couple times downtown. Him and Gaborik were very good friends.

The team site:

http://en.khl****/clubs/lokomotiv

 

[L3ggy]

Goaltender Stefan Liv, 30 (Sweden)

:bawling:

 

[STDiva]

I wish Demitra would've stayed with the Wild. He was one of my all time favorites. Met him a couple times downtown. Him and Gaborik were very good friends.

The team site:

http://en.khl****/clubs/lokomotiv

banned site nooooooob

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

It sounds like the Russian fleet of domestic commercial airliners are shit. Another good reason for NHLers to stay on this side of the pond. Seriously, with all the $$$ KHL owners spend, they didn't have a chartered/Company-owned airliner? WTF?

Look at the pic of this thing, looks like scrap metal:

http://aol.sportingnews.com/nhl/sto...ing-hockey-team-crashes-36-dead?ncid=webmail2

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

banned site nooooooob

Only because it was a .ur or something like that. I just left it for you to figure out.

 

[Eric Lindros]

A big tragedy.

RIP.

 

[Henrik Larsson]

That is horrible

I don't know any hockey player, but any plane crash is a tragedy

RIP

I wish the best for their families

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

It sounds like the Russian fleet of domestic commercial airliners are shit. Another good reason for NHLers to stay on this side of the pond. Seriously, with all the $$$ KHL owners spend, they didn't have a chartered/Company-owned airliner? WTF?

Look at the pic of this thing, looks like scrap metal:

http://aol.sportingnews.com/nhl/sto...ing-hockey-team-crashes-36-dead?ncid=webmail2

I should say, of course it was chartered, but I wonder the quality of the airliner. Those Russian billionaires need to get planes like the Miami Heat.

 

[L3ggy]

Feels awfully similar to the Munich Air Disaster.

 

[Henrik Larsson]

Feels awfully similar to the Munich Air Disaster.

:dito:

 

[Mauser98k]

this offseason can suck so much dick. 30+ dead hockey players? really?


may they all RIP and can we PLEASE STOP with the dead hockey players now?

 

[GodsEmbryo]

RIP

And I wish the best for their families

 

[Ulysses31]

RIP


The Lokomotiv ice hockey team in Yaroslavl, as taken in August this year. Almost everyone on the plane died

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rash-kills-ice-hockey-team.html#ixzz1XIWotsHI

 

[L3ggy]

Their families must be in real pain.