A Russian jet carrying members of a local hockey team crashed shortly after takeoff on Wednesday, killing 43 people, including several former NHL players.
I read many years ago that our leagues do have contingencies in place should such a tragedy occur. In most cases they would have a draft of players from other teams in an attempt to get the team functional in a short period of time.
Yesterday I read that 5 were associated with the Wings, one was the goalie Stephan Liv, in the Wings organization that had previously played in town here for a short while.