![]() The crash comes on top of an already mournful year for the NHL in which three of the league’s enforcers were found dead: Derek Boogaard, Rick Rypien and recently retired Wade Belak. “Though it occurred thousands of miles away from our home arenas, this tragedy represents a catastrophic loss to the hockey world – including the NHL family, which lost so many fathers, sons, teammates and friends,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement. Also killed were Czech players Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek, Swedish goalie Stefan Liv, Latvian defenceman Karlis Skrastins and defenceman Ruslan Salei of Belarus, the Emergency Ministry said. Louis Blues and the Vancouver Canucks and was the Slovakian national team captain. But there is still some hope,” said Alexander Degyatryov, chief doctor at Yaroslavl’s Solovyov Hospital.Īmong the dead were Lokomotiv coach and NHL veteran Brad McCrimmon, a Canadian, as well as Pavol Demitra, who played for the St. ![]() Officials said Russian player Alexander Galimov survived the crash along with a crewmember. ![]() It had 45 people on board, including 37 passengers and eight crew, the ministry said. The plane was carrying the team from Yaroslavl to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where they were to play Thursday against Dinamo Minsk in the opening game of the Kontinental Hockey League season. Russian television showed a flaming fragment of the plane in the river as divers worked feverishly to recover bodies. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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