So tragic!
I heard the plane was due for a maintenance check for like 3 weeks. To think that this could possibly have been hindered :(

RIP :(

really sad.

RIP Pavol Demitra and rest of the team...

"Galimov's doc: "Burns on 90% of body, including respiratory system. Lots of internal injuries... Condition -- beyond critical""

Other survivor doing somewhat better, "10-15% burns, hip trauma, broken bone at the base of the skull, shock."

RIP

RIP.

It's so sad...

three members of our national hockey team died there... pretty sick :/

"Stan Galiev tweets that the mother of Sergei Ostapchuk (Lokomotiv player) has died of a heart attack upon hearing the news."

Galimov's still hanging in there though.

Jesus, im lost for words

I think this was confirmed as not being true. Instead, "The wife of Lokomotiv coach Karpovtsev, on her way to Yaroslavl with their daughter, was involved in a car crash. Minor injuries, child OK".

Some quotes on Galimov's condition:
"Doctor says Galimov was responsive this morning and even managed to communicate with his father who was at the bedside."

"Galimov is currently in a medication-induced sleep and plugged in to a breathing machine. Doctors sound just a bit more optimistic today"

"Dr. Alexeyev says Galimov's condition will depend on controlling the infection. The main problem will be removing and replacing dead tissues"

How does a team pick itself up after such a loss?

See Manchester United.

Wow you are really trying hard to be the European answer to raythenoob, aren't you.

They only lost 8 players, where as in this accident only 1 player survived.

'only'


Sorry, am I missing something here? 11 players in a squad. Lost 'only' 8 of them...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_air_disaster

You are. 9 United players survived that crash. All but one Lokomotiv player perished. There's not even any scraps left to rebuild with.

Who's that dieing on the runway
Who's that dieing in the snow
It's Matt Busby and his boys
Making such a fucking noise
Cos they can't get their aeroplane to go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Pakhtakor_Tashkent

Russian coach-legend Viktor Tichonow, a reaction to this tragedy has asked all clubs playing in the KHL to give Lokomotiv Jaroslawl players and coaches so the club can play on in the current season, in honor of the perished in this flight-catastrophe.

Fuck he got ballz!

In soviet russia, people have balls.

Not that ballsy tbh. NHL have a contingency plan in case of an event like this, And it's been done in Russia in the past too.

They need to stop using those shitty planes.

"Insha'Allah" - this is how turkish colleagues call Yak-42 planes.

Galimov died in the hospital, 80% burns are way to much to survive...

RIP...

Apparently this particular crash was human error, as the plane struck a tower mast.

Are there any good polish players? I think they should fly a team or two over for try-outs.

After what happened to their president and Lokomotiv polish hockey players only use trains and cars. And their anti-tank battle horses

Wojtek Wolski's pretty solid.

Galimov passed this morning. That makes the entire team wiped out.