Sad news this morning as the news has broke around the world that a plane carrying the staff and players of the KHL club Lokomotiv Yaroslavl has crashed killing 35 people on route from Moscow to Minsk. Not much else is known at the current time. Pavol Demitra, Ruslan Salei, and Josef Vasicek were all rumored to be on board.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the organization.
**Update
It appears the casualty number has gone up to 43 people. The plane was carrying 45 passengers so they now have two confirmed survivors. 37 passengers and 8 crew members are presumed dead. The cause of the crash has been ruled a pilot error. another press release out of Russia has said not all the players may have been travelling by plane but theres no confirmation of that.
***Update
The following players have been confirmed as being deceased.
#1 Stefan Liv (G)
#35 Olexander Viyukhin (G)
#57 Vitali Anikeyenko (D)
#39 Mikhail Balandin (D)
#37 Karlis Skrastins (D)
While #11 Alexander Galimov (RW) has been confirmed as the passenger survivor and the second survivor is one of the plane crew.
****Update
It's been reported the entire main roster has been confirmed among the deceased and it appears that Alexander Galimov has now passed as well. Also the league has said 4 MHL players were also on board.
#20 Robert Dietrich (D)
#74 Marat Kalimulin (D)
#4 Karel Rachunek (D) - Captain
#42 Ruslan Salei (D)
#3 Pavel Trakhanov (D)
#81 Yuri Urychev (D)
#21 Gennadi Churilov (C/LW)
#38 Pavol Demitra (C/W)
#28 Alexander Kalyanin (LW)
#83 Andrei Kiryukhin (F)
#23 Nikita Klyukin (C)
#15 Jan Marek (C)
#24 Sergei Ostapchuk (LW)
#91 Daniil Sobchenko (C)
#17 Ivan Tkachenko (RW) - Assistant
#63 Josef Vasicek (C/LW) - Assistant
#18 Alexander Vasyunov (LW/RW)
#72 Artem Yarchuk (F)
Maxim Shuvalov (D) - MHL
Alexander Karpovtsev - Assistant Coach
Igor Korolev - Assistant Coach
Brad McCrimmon - Head Coach
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