Posted on 09/07/2011 1:29:51 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
KHL Players Killed In Crash A plane carrying a KHL ice hockey team crashed in western Russia, killing at least 43 people
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He played a few years in Hartford too, before closing out his playing career in Phoenix.
Such a tragedy.
Thanks, how sad. I would have thought that he would be older though.
I remember Ruslan Salei from the 2003 Anaheim Mighty Ducks team that lost to the New Jersey Devils in the Stanley Cup Finals. He had a game-winning OT goal right off a faceoff in Game 3 to bring Anaheim back into it after they lost the first two games on the road.
He was also one of the two players involved in a comical incident later in Game 6. He got into a shoving match in front of his net with Grant Marshall of the Devils and ended up dumping Marshall to the ice on his knees. Marshall was in an awkward position and could stand right up and go back at him, so he grabbed one of Salei's feet, lifted it up off the ice, and twisted it sideways so Salei lost his balance and tumbled down next to him. LOL.
Sad summer for the Wild too, who lost former players Pavol Demitra in the crash and Derek Boogaard to an overdose. Prayers for the families of all those lost.
Make that four losses, since one of the players lost played for our minor team, the Milwaukee Admirals, Robert Dietrich. People are just stunned.
I remember Vasicek from when I worked for the Hurricanes years ago. He was a really good guy.
But who is this survivor.. saw no mention of this person anywhere else.
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