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R.I.P. Russian Hockey Team
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MOSCOW — A Russian jet carrying a local hockey team crashed Wednesday while taking off in western Russia, killing 36 people and leaving one critically injured, officials said.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 crashed immediately after taking off from an airport near the city of Yaroslavl, on the Volga River, 240 kilometres northeast of Moscow. It said one person survived the crash with grave injuries.
The ministry said the plane was carrying the Lokomotiv hockey team from Yaroslavl.
The team was heading to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where it was to play Thursday against Dinamo Minsk in the opening game of the season of the Continental Hockey League. The CHL is a league of several ex-Soviet countries.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin immediately sent his transport minister to the site of the crash, 15 kilometres east of Yaroslavl.
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.
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.
He played 1,222 regular season games in the NHL, collecting 81 goals, 322 assists and 1,416 penalty minutes.
McCrimmon was an assistant coach with the New York Islanders, Calgary Flames, Atlanta Thrashers and Detroit Red Wings. He also served as head coach of the Western Hockey League's Saskatoon Blades.
The short- and medium-range Yak-42 has been in service since 1980 and dozens are still in service with Russian and other airlines.
In June, another Russian passenger jet crashed in the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk, killing 47 people. The crash of that Tu-134 plane has been blamed on pilot error.
President Dmitry Medvedev has announced plans to take aging Soviet-built planes out of service starting next year. |
So when are tryouts for the open positions...I think I may stand a chance at making the team. |
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| Ian |
| Sad news, but BTG already has his flights booked. |
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| Cloudburst |
I wonder, what the does a team do when this happens? :(
I mean the franchise. Sad stuff though. |
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| dj_alfi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cloudburst
I wonder, what the does a team do when this happens? :(
I mean the franchise. Sad stuff though. |
Soviet Russia has no franchises. Only stateowned team to win the big cup! |
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| prolikewhoa |
| in soviet russia, hockey plays you! |
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| stren |
| that's a local team, the title of the thread makes it seem like its the national team |
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| Sinnica Hax |
| i miss words, this is so tragic to say the least, i'll miss Stefan Liv insanely much upon following him for so many years now, my thoughts go to them all |
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| aquila |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cloudburst
I wonder, what the does a team do when this happens? :(
I mean the franchise. Sad stuff though. |
ask Man Utd. |
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| BTG |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian
Sad news, but BTG already has his flights booked. |
If there's one thing you need to know about leafs fans, it is this:
We do not care about hockey. We just care about the leafs. because we're pigs. |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
| quote: | Originally posted by BTG
If there's one thing you need to know about leafs fans, it is this:
We do not care about hockey. We just care about the leafs. because we're pigs. |
that can't skate, especially backwards. I'd like you to play in our league for just one game for fun. Our 4th liners love english guys that can't skate out of the way.
This crash was bound to happen. Apparently they still use soviet built planes many times ( like everything else they built). When Brad Richards played over there during the last NHL strike, he bailed on his contract because he refused to travel on the team plane citing safety issues.
A few decent players went down today, pretty sad stuff. I used to like Pavol Demitra when he was in his prime. |
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| BTG |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay
that can't skate, especially backwards. I'd like you to play in our league for just one game for fun. Our 4th liners love english guys that can't skate out of the way.
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I am actually an excellent backwards skater (played goal for 12 years or so)
and I'm a pretty decent skater as well, i just have hands made out of stone so I can't do anything once i get the puck. ;) |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
| i saw you skate in that vid man.... :haha: |
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