another sad day for the hockey world...

[85e325]

i don't know how many of you are hockey fans but im sure if you saw the news today, a plane carrying the khl( kontinental hockey league) lokomotiv crashed in western russia killing the majority of the players and staff, there were alot of nhl ties on that plane and alot of nnl alumni who lost their life in this tragic accident. May their souls rest in peace and there friends and family find solice during this time

[ethirtydavid]

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/09/07/russia-plane-crash.html?cmp=rss

[Mtriple]

RIP Lokomotiv....

Pretty powerful stuff:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Video-Dynamo-Minsk-8217-s-hockey-funeral-for-L?urn=nhl-wp12157

And CCTV footage from the Navigation tower that the plane struck:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbI6PzXPovM

The most current list I've seen:

The Russian Emergencies Minsitry has published a list of passengers and crew on board the Yak-42 that crashed outside of Yaroslavl, killing at least 43 people. Two people have survived and remain in critical condition at a local hospital.

+7 (495) 279-08-03 Emergencies Ministry Hotline

+7 (495) 626-37-07 Psychological Assistance Hotline

Passenger list:

1.Vitaly Anikeyenko

2.Yury Bakhvalov

3.Aleksandr Belyayev

4.Mikhail Balandin

5.Aleksandr Vasyunov

6.Josef Vasicek

7.Aleksandr Vyukhin

8.Aleksandr Galimov – in critical condition

9.Robert Dietrich

10.Pavol Demitra

11.Andrei Zimin

12.Marat Kalimulin

13.Aleksandr Karpovtsev

14.Aleksandr Kalyanin

15.Andrei Kiryukhin

16.Nikita Klyukin

17.Igor Korolyov

18.Nikolai Krivonosov

19.Yevgeny Kunnov

20.Vyacheslav Kuznetsov

21.Stefan Liv

22.Jan Marek

23.Brad McCrimmon

24.Sergey Ostapchuk

25.Vladimir Piskunov

26.Karel Rachunek

27.Evgeny Sidorov

28.Karlis Skrastins

29.Ruslan Saley

30.Pavel Snurnitsyn

31.Daniil Sobchenko

32.Ivan Tkachenko

33.Pavel Trakhanov

34.Igor Urychev

35.Gennady Churilov

36.Maksim Shuvalov

37.Artyom Yarchuk

Crew

1.Andrey Solontsev

2.Igor Zhevelov

3.Sergei Zhuravlev

4.Vladimir Matyushkin

5.Aleksandr Sizov – in critical condition

6.Yelena Sarmatova

7.Nadezhda Maksumova

8.Yelena Shavina

[chadthestampede]

Very sad.

http://rt.com/news/plane-lokomotiv-crash-hockey-107/

Russia Today
....

“Mom, they picked me in the squad! I’m in!” Urychev almost shouted when he first appeared in the starting line-up for Lokomotiv. A whole new life was opened up for the then-18-year-old as a rising star and very promising athlete.

Nothing, not even an injury and a five-match disqualification, could hold him back.

“When you’re injured or disqualified, it’s easier to be with the team, even if you can’t help them on the rink,” said a friend of Yury’s, as quoted by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.

Yury Urychev insisted that he should join the team in this opening match against their Minsk rivals and took to the sky with the others. Never to play again.

[Justin B]

RIP, All. :( Wow...