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Title: Russian jet carrying KHL hockey team crashes, 36 dead
Category: Sports
Posted By: Regina
Date: 2011-09-07 06:52:41
Canadian

[Regina]

Current Roster:

Vitaly Anikeyenko- Kiev, Ukrainian SSR

Mikhail Balandin- Lipetsk, Russian SFSR

Gennady Churilov- Magnitogorsk, Russian SFSR

Pavol Demitra- Dubnica nad V�hom, Czechoslovakia

Robert Dietrich- Ordzhonikidze, Ukrainian SSR

Alexander Galimov- Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR

Marat Kalimulin- Togliatti, Russian SFSR

Alexander Kalyanin- Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR

Andrei Kiryukhin- Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR

Nikita Klyukin- Rybinsk, Russian SFSR

Ivan Krasnov- Yaroslavl, Russia

Stefan Liv- Gdynia, Poland

Jan Marek- Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia

Sergei Ostapchuk- Novopolotsk, Belorussian SSR

Karel Rachůnek (C)- Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia

Ruslan Salei- Minsk, Belorussian SSR

Karlis Skrastin- Riga, Latvian SSR

Pavel Snurnitsyn- Yaroslavl, Russia

Daniil Sobchenko- Kiev, Ukrainian SSR

Ivan Tkachenko (A)- Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR

Pavel Trakhanov- Moscow, Russian SFSR

Yuri Urychev- Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR

Josef Vasicek (A)- Havl�čkův Brod, Czechoslovakia

Alexander Vasyunov- Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR

Alexander Vyukhin- Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR

Artem Yarchuk- Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR

Maxim Zyuzyakin- Novokuznetsk, Russian SFSR

[Regina]

Former NHLers on the team roster include Pavol Demitra and Ruslan Salei and the coach in Canadian Brad McCrimmon. But it was not known whether they were on board the plane.

Mr. McCrimmon, 52, is a native of Saskatchewan. He played defence for six NHL teams — Boston, Philadelphia, Calgary, Detroit, Hartford and Phoenix from 1979-80 to 1996-97.

[PostFactum]

RIP

[sandorski]

[jeff744]

One player survived the crash

$1:

UPDATE 2: One player from Lokomotiv has survived the crash. Alexander Galimov, a 26-year-old forward who has been with the team since 2004, has been hospitalized. Details are here.

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puc ... hl-wp11993

[bootlegga]

RIP

[Strutz]

How tragic...

RIP

[OnTheIce]

Horrible.

[PostFactum]

Alexander Galimov died in hospital.

[Zipperfish]

Horrible.

[Goober_McGee]

Tragic, the city must be in total shock.

[GreenTiger]

RIP to all who died too soon.

[Yogi]

Absolutely terrible! RIP
My condolences to all their families and friends.

[Regina]

I played hockey at lunch today shortly after posting this. Only a few of us heard about it by then and were talking about the names we recognized in the dressing room. When McCrimmon's name was mentioned one of the guys said: "What fuck was he doing there?" I said he was the coach...... then I remembered they were ex-teammates. Put a real damper on the skate.