Russian team in plane crash!

[joehelmer]

Lokomotiv Yaroslavls plane crashed today after takeoff from the airfield when they were going to fly to Minsk to practice.

So far there's 34 confirmed dead out of 37 who were on the plane and the three persons who reported to be alive is in a critical state.

[McQwak]

I just read it now. Horrible tragedy.
Current roster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokomotiv_ ... ent_roster

[bruins72]

I just heard this on the radio. This is horrible. So many people lost. RIP.

[joehelmer]

Now the number of killed has raised to 42 out of 44.

[leafsnation]

From Wikipedia...
Current roster


Updated August 31, 2011 [2][3]
#↓ Nat↓ Player↓ Pos↓ S/G↓ Age↓ Acquired↓ Birthplace
57 Russia Vitaly Anikeyenko D R 24 2005 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR
39 Russia Mikhail Balandin D L 31 2011 Lipetsk, Russian SFSR
21 Russia Gennady Churilov C L 24 2005 Magnitogorsk, Russian SFSR
38 Slovakia Pavol Demitra C L 36 2010 Dubnica nad Váhom, Czechoslovakia
20 Germany Robert Dietrich D L 25 2011 Ordzhonikidze, Ukrainian SSR
11 Russia Alexander Galimov RW L 26 2004 Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR
74 Russia Marat Kalimulin D R 23 2010 Togliatti, Russian SFSR
28 Russia Alexander Kalyanin RW L 23 2008 Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR
83 Russia Andrei Kiryukhin RW L 24 2005 Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR
23 Russia Nikita Klyukin C L 21 2005 Rybinsk, Russian SFSR
64 Russia Ivan Krasnov F L 19 2009 Yaroslavl, Russia
1 Sweden Stefan Liv G L 30 2011 Gdynia, Poland
15 Czech Republic Jan Marek C R 31 2011 Jindřichův Hradec, Czechoslovakia
32 Russia Sergei Ostapchuk LW R 21 2007 Novopolotsk, Belorussian SSR
4 Czech Republic Karel Rachůnek (C) D R 32 2010 Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia
24 Belarus Ruslan Salei D L 36 2011 Minsk, Belorussian SSR
37 Latvia Karlis Skrastinš D R 37 2011 Riga, Latvian SSR
69 Russia Pavel Snurnitsyn F L 19 2009 Yaroslavl, Russia
13 Russia Daniil Sobchenko C L 20 2007 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR
17 Russia Ivan Tkachenko (A) LW L 31 2001 Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR
3 Russia Pavel Trakhanov D L 33 2011 Moscow, Russian SFSR
81 Russia Yuri Urychev D R 20 2009 Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR
63 Czech Republic Josef Vasicek (A) C L 30 2008 Havlíčkův Brod, Czechoslovakia
18 Russia Alexander Vasyunov LW R 23 2011 Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR
35 Ukraine Alexander Vyukhin G L 38 2010 Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR
72 Russia Artem Yarchuk LW L 21 2010 Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR
61 Russia Maxim Zyuzyakin F R 20 2008 Novokuznetsk, Russian SFSR


According to the Toronto Star, the coach is Brad McCrimmon.

[Reave]

What a tragedy.

RIP

[Danny]

A team official confirmed the whole team and some youth players were on board. They were on their way to their season opener in Minsk.

-----------
e.dchesnokov Dmitry Chesnokov
Lokomotiv forward Alexander Galimov survived the crash, his agent confirmed to Sovetsky Sport.

[ZaZooM]

Some sources confirm that Ruslan Salei wasn't on plaine.

[B. Stinson]

Wow, 42 dead out of 44? That's terrible. ...An entire hockey team wiped out in one accident

[Stastny26]

A terrible disaster.
Alexander Galimov is in the hospital, showing how he was taken to the hospital, he was conscious.
According to Ruslan Salei information is different, someone wrote that it was not on the plane, someone wrote that there was.

God help the survivors!

[leafsnation]

According to reports, Riley Armstrong (brother of Leafs Colby Armstrong) was a member of the team, but not on the plane as he was attending a training camp in St John's, Newfoundland.

[joehelmer]

Now it is 43 out of 47, I hope it stops at that number.

[bestrafer7]

Horrible..

[philou21]

I just saw it on internet, 43 dead. darn I'm shocked right now. I always told my friends that hockey players were lucky that a team never died from a plane crash.....I should've shut my mouth. This is just disastrous and really sad.

Edit: Its now 44 death and only 1 survivor on 45 passengers. This is disgusting. RIP and all my wishes to all those families

[Gretzlaf]

Just terrible. I'm sick to my stomach right now.

[Loosie]

TSN says that the KHL has just confirmed that coach Brad McCrimon was on board the plane and among the dead. No other confirmations yet at this point other than that Alexander Gailmov and a Crew member are the lone survivors.

http://en.khl.ru/news/2011/9/7/24152.html

Jan Marek and Josef Vacicek also confirmed to be in the crash.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ ... crash.html

CBC says that the Czech embassy confirmed that Karel Rachunek was killed in the crash.

NHL.com has an article up about the crash as well and has the most confirmed players on it, inlduing Pavol Demitra.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=5877 ... L|NHL|home

Stefan Liv confirmed dead in this link, can't read Swedish though.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportblade...cle13589266.ab

Russian officials have confirmed that Ruslan Salei was on board the plane and died in the crash.


Confirmed:
Brad McCrimmon
Jan Marek
Josef Vasicek
Karel Rachunek
Karlis Skrastins
Pavol Demitra
Alexander Vasyunov
Stefan Liv
Ruslan Salei

[Stastny26]

Alexander Galimov in the hospital, but he has 90% body burns.

[bruins72]

Wow, 42 dead out of 44? That's terrible. ...An entire hockey team wiped out in one accident

You know, they joked about something like this on Seinfeld years and years ago. They were talking about "What if there was a plane crash and all of the Yankees died?". Who ever thought something like that would really happen? It's shocking.

[B. Stinson]

Wow, 42 dead out of 44? That's terrible. ...An entire hockey team wiped out in one accident

You know, they joked about something like this on Seinfeld years and years ago. They were talking about "What if there was a plane crash and all of the Yankees died?". Who ever thought something like that would really happen? It's shocking.

Oddly, I've even thought about it myself. It's not too uncommon to hear about plane crashes with one or two team employees on board, but what about the whole team when they're traveling to a game...

By the way, what's with all these hockey deaths?

[McQwak]

[philou21]

The more I read about this news the more I'm feeling sick. When I read about some official death of some players......darn, I just can't believe it.

[djskek]

it beggars belief

[grits207]

Horrible end to a tragic summer for hockey. Thoughts and prayers to the families of those killed.

Confirmed:
Brad McCrimmon
Jan Marek
Josef Vasicek
Karel Rachunek
Karlis Skrastins
Pavol Demitra
Alexander Vasyunov
Stefan Liv
Ruslan Salei

Former Leafs players Igor Korolev and Alexander Karpovtsev were also killed in the crash. Both were Assistant Coaches for the team.

[CeeBee]

A very sad day for hockey
There have been too many of them this summer.

[grazza]

Aweful news today puts a sport into perspective when something like this happens.