Russian Jet Carrying Hockey Team Crashes

[Rey]

A Russian jet carrying members of a local hockey team crashed shortly after takeoff on Wednesday, killing 43 people, including several former NHL players.

Read more: Russian Jet Carrying Hockey Team Crashes, 43 Dead | FoxNews.com
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[jgags6]

hit a radar tower?

 

[Ramy]

Pavol Demitra was the only name I recognized.

Tragic indeed.

 

[stone phillips420]

Rusilan Salei as well

 

[SandraC]

I believe Brad McCrimmon was the head coach of that team. Or perhaps that was last year?


Sandra

 

[stone phillips420]

no he was on plane sandra, he was coach this year red wings assistant coach last year

 

[riffjim4069]

Shocking! R.I.P.

 

[salsadancer7]

Wow....how sad. R.I.P.

 

[BillD1984]

Very sad indeed...... Brad McCrimmon started his career with the Bruins


RIP

 

[Jimbo]

R.I.P. gentlemen, all of you.

McCrimmon and Salei were both Red Wings at one time.

 

[SandraC]

Alexander Karpovtsev also on the plane...he was on the 1994 Rangers Stanley Cup team...so sad.


Sandra

 

[yaz96]

On the Broncos board, someone posed this question - What if it was YOUR NFL teams plane that crashed and everyone died??

Imagine the Patriots/Jets/Raiders/Steelers team plane going down....

How would that affect you as a fan? How would it affect the league? How would our team rebuild, and what impact would that have?

 

[btharner]

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.

 

[salsadancer7]

WOW.....I just found out that 4 players were former Panthers....

 

[Jimbo]

WOW.....I just found out that 4 players were former Panthers....

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.