Awful KHL News

[naslundfan19]

I feel just like everyone else here. Sad.

 

[flyersfan4706]

So what is going to happen with the KHL season now?

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

good question
unprecedented, really (well, except for Marshall)

how do you reswizzle a schedule of a pro sports league when you lose and entire fucking team from a league...

fuckin a.

 

[Automattic]

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO SAY!


I just put in a looong day at work and was going to unwind here for a minute. I am just now hearing of all this. I'm gonna leave it at this post tonight. I really have nothing to say. Sad, sad day.

 

[puckhead]

So what is going to happen with the KHL season now?

NHL has a waiver draft system in place if a catastrophe happens to one of its teams.
thestar.com
it's awful soon, but I'm guessing KHL will do something similar.

 

[Bizzle McDizzle]

2:15

with the pass from the corner in OT

RIP

 

[flyersfan4706]

NHL has a waiver draft system in place if a catastrophe happens to one of its teams.
thestar.com
it's awful soon, but I'm guessing KHL will do something similar.

Wow, I can only imagine the thought of somemany NHLers I am familiar with going at once.

I cant believe this just happened. A day hockey fans are not going to be forgetting anytime soon.

 

[pixburgher66]

Three Olympic Captains killed...Demitra, Skrastins, and Salei. Wow.

 

[puckhead]

Russian news animation of what happened to the plane.
sovsport.ru

they are also trying to determine if it was mechanical failure, or low quality jet fuel.

 

[TheRobotDevil]

I feel just like everyone else here. Sad.

[^^^^ this Vasyunov scored his first nhl goal last season rip to all who lost their lives and sympathy to their families

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

In an interesting twist to all of this, according to the website AlexOvetjkin which is a very reliable source:

Had Semyon Varlamov not been traded to Colorado and ended up in the KHL, guess which KHL team had rights to him....

 

[evolver115]

The Yak-42 plane is among the aging Soviet-designed narrow-body aircraft that have been the focus of safety concerns after a series of problems and crashes, including one in June that killed most of the 52 passengers on board. The hockey team’s plane came down about 500 yards from the runway in the village of Tunoshna shortly after 4 p.m. The fuselage came to rest partly in a tributary of the Volga River; it was unclear whether the pilot, having encountered an emergency during takeoff, had tried to ditch the plane in the water but struck the riverbank instead.

Still tooling around the skies in soviet era aircraft?!? Jesus H. Christ, That would be like NHL teams flying on 707's.

 

[forty_three]

I didn't hear about it until I was on my way home. Prayers to the families.



I did have a really bad day yesterday, so maybe I was already on edge and unhappy, but am I the only one who was pissed off that the NHL network couldn't be bothered to break into their endless repeats of meaningless games from last year's playoffs to, I don't know, talk about the sudden loss of nearly 50 professional players?

All they did was run a scroll at the bottom with some names and that obnoxious Bettman quote. "though it happened thousands of miles away..." Fuck you Bettman. To hockey fans and players, this happened right in our back yard. Drop the elitist bullshit. No reason to state that qualifier because it happened to a rival league. Especially when you know if we lost the New York Islanders the same way and Fetisov said the exact same thing, the shrew would go ballistic.

That kind of politics and marketing make me sick.

 

[dash]

I think it would be a great gesture by the NHL for all 30 teams to wear a Lokomotiv helmet patch this season...

 

[SLY]

I think it would be a great gesture by the NHL for all 30 teams to wear a Lokomotiv helmet patch this season...

Agreed, but it won't happen. I just dont see Bettman doing it.

 

[mattola]

they are going to rebuild the team for this year.

After plane crash, KHL asks for patience on Lokomotiv plans - Puck Daddy - NHLBlog - Yahoo! Sports

 

[jstewismybastardson]

tough read regarding Skrastins

Reality Check achicksperspective

 

[mattola]

tough read regarding Skrastins

Reality Check achicksperspective

wow that is a tough one.

 

[puckhead]

tough read regarding Skrastins

Reality Check achicksperspective

holy shit.


is it dusty in here? there's something in my eye.

 

[buffhockey]

tough read regarding Skrastins

Reality Check achicksperspective

Tough to read and not get choked up. And you know there are other stories just like this with the other families involved....