Wednesday, September 7, 2011

The Worst Offseason-EVER

This has been a horrible off-season for NHL players, coaches, owners, and fans, as, with today's tragic Lokomotiv air disaster in Russia, 46 professional hockey players and coaches have died this summer. We've lost way too many good people this summer. This off-season cannot end soon enough.

Derek Boogard
Rick Rypien
Wade Belak

Players and Coach killed in Lokomotiv air disaster:

Vitaly Anikeenko

Yuri Bahvalov

Alexander Belyaev

Mikhail Balandin

Alexander Vasyunov

Joseph Vashichek

Alexander E. Vyuhin

Robert Genrikhovich Ditrih

Pavol Demitra

Andrey Zimin

Marat Natfullovich Kalimulin

Alexander G. Karpovtsev

Alexander I. Kalyanin

Andrey Kiryuhin

Nikita Klyukin

Igor Borisovich Korolev

Nikolai Krivonosov

Evgeny Kunnov

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Kuznetsov

Stephen Daniel Patrick Liv

Jan Marek

Sergey I. Ostapchuk

Vladimir Leonidovich Piskunov

Karel Rahunek

Ruslan Salei

Evgeny Sidorov

Karlis Martinovic Skrastins

Pavel Snurnitsyn

Daniel E. Sobchenko

Gennady S. Churilov

Maxim A. Shuvalov

Artem Nikolaevich Yarchuk.

Head coach: Brad McCrimmon

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