thedailywhat: Heart-Breaking News of the Day: Tragedy struck the hockey world today as a Yak-42 passenger plane chartered by renowned KHL team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl reportedly hit a light post and crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 43 of the 45 people on board. According to local media, the team’s entire roster was killed in the crash, save for winger Alexander Galimov who is in critical condition. The other survivor is reportedly a flight engineer. “We have no team any more,” team spokesman Vladimir N. Malkov is quoted as saying. “All our starting players, and all the service people, they all burned in the crash.” The team was en route to Minsk, where they were to kickoff their 2011-12 KHL season. Speaking at the traditional Opening Cup game between last year’s finalists, KHL President Aleksandr Medvedev told the crowd “we will do our best to keep the high-level hockey in Yaroslavl.” [rt / nyt.] Everyone is a hockey fan today.
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Heart-Breaking News of the Day: Tragedy struck the hockey world today as a Yak-42 passenger plane chartered by renowned KHL team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl reportedly hit a light post and crashed shortly after takeoff, killing 43 of the 45 people on board.

According to local media, the team’s entire roster was killed in the crash, save for winger Alexander Galimov who is in critical condition. The other survivor is reportedly a flight engineer.

“We have no team any more,” team spokesman Vladimir N. Malkov is quoted as saying. “All our starting players, and all the service people, they all burned in the crash.”

The team was en route to Minsk, where they were to kickoff their 2011-12 KHL season. Speaking at the traditional Opening Cup game between last year’s finalists, KHL President Aleksandr Medvedev told the crowd “we will do our best to keep the high-level hockey in Yaroslavl.”

[rt / nyt.]

Everyone is a hockey fan today.

Source: thedailywhat

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