ccmtcanada Posted September 7, 2011 Report Share Posted September 7, 2011 Pavol Demitra, Igor Korelev, Canadian head coach Brad McCrimmon passed away along with many others...an entire team and coaching staff gone in an instant... Canadian coach McCrimmon among 43 dead in Russian plane crash MOSCOW—Canadian coach Brad McCrimmon is among the dead in a Russian plane crash that happened Wednesday while the jet was taking off in western Russia, killing 43 people and critically injuring two others. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42, part of an aging fleet that was to have been taken out of service next year, crashed immediately after taking off from an airport near the city of Yaroslavl, on the Volga River, 240 kilometres northeast of Moscow. The plane was carrying the Lokomotiv hockey team from Yaroslavl to Minsk, the capital of Belarus where it was to play Thursday against Dynamo Minsk in the opening game of the season of the Continental Hockey League (KHL). There were 45 people — 37 passengers and eight crew members — on board, the ministry said. Citing preliminary information, the ministry said two people survived and were taken to hospital. It was one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team. KHL confirmed that Canadian Brad McCrimmon was among the dead. McCrimmon took over as head coach in May. A native of Saskatchewan, the 52-year-old was most recently an assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings, and played for years in the NHL for Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Hartford and Phoenix. Officials said Russian player Alexander Galimov survived the crash along with a crewmember. Eleven foreign players were reportedly onboard the jet. A Czech Embassy official said Czech players Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek were among those killed, and Latvian officials confirmed the death of Latvian defenceman Karlis Skrastins. Swedish goalie Stefan Liv was also confirmed dead. Read more at Read more...click here Another link... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tb4me Posted September 7, 2011 Report Share Posted September 7, 2011 Sad day for both the KHL and NHL. I couldnt imagine this happening ever and now it has...wow.. On the positive side there were 2 survivors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted September 7, 2011 Report Share Posted September 7, 2011 Sad day for both the KHL and NHL. I couldnt imagine this happening ever and now it has...wow.. On the positive side there were 2 survivors Sad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaque Posted September 7, 2011 Report Share Posted September 7, 2011 Very sad indeed, haunts me to think of what those last seconds were like for all the crew and passengers involved. Absolutely terrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silveradosheriff Posted September 7, 2011 Report Share Posted September 7, 2011 Very sad indeed...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccmtcanada Posted September 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2011 Very sad indeed, haunts me to think of what those last seconds were like for all the crew and passengers involved. Absolutely terrible. I know what you mean...it's horrifying The first fire drill my office had after 9-11, as I was walking down 12 flights of stairs, my knees went weak imagining those trying to get out as the towers collapsed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaque Posted September 7, 2011 Report Share Posted September 7, 2011 I know what you mean...it's horrifying The first fire drill my office had after 9-11, as I was walking down 12 flights of stairs, my knees went weak imagining those trying to get out as the towers collapsed. Ugh, that too would have my brain going in a bad way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatpelkey Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 really sad, so many people died way to soon r.i.p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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