Awful KHL News

[sbb122]

tough read regarding Skrastins

Reality Check achicksperspective

I knew i should have waited to get home to read that. So sad.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

funny/touching tweet about Skrastins

Former TPS coach Jukka Koivu tells Turun Sanomat that when Karlis Skrastins got his first TPS salary, he bought his family a cow.

 

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[evolver115]

Take a look at this one:

In the worst sports-related disaster in decades, one of Russia's best ice hockey teams, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, was decimated Wednesday in a plane crash that killed at least 43 people.

The crash also sealed Russia's position as the most dangerous place to travel by plane in 2011, with the country surpassing even the Democratic Republic of Congo in the number of aircraft-related fatalities.

Read more: Hockey Jet Crash Spotlights Safety Risks | News | The Moscow Times
The Moscow Times

The European Aviation Safety Agency ranked Yak Service in 2009 — the latest year for which statistics are available — as the least safe of 35 Russian airlines flying to Europe, according to Aviation Explorer, an air industry web site.

The Yaroslavl crash is the ninth for Yak-42s around the world since they went into mass production in 1980. The last jet, a replacement for the Tu-134, was built in 2002, but more than 170 planes remain in operation worldwide.

 

[DevilishWon]

The stste department recently issued a travel advisement (not a full warning) suggesting Americans in the foprmer Soviet republics not fly Aeroflot or other Russian flag carriers on internal flights if it could be avoided due to poor/non-existant mainteenance. Don't know what caused this crach but....

 

[Automattic]

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.

I was literally yelling at the TV!

 

[jstewismybastardson]

first player to decline lucrative offers from KHL over fears is:


Sport Express reports that Jarkko Ruutu has turned down all KHL offers and will be playing for Jokerit Helsinki for 1/10th the salary.

/read a story that Kevin Dallman (highest paid NA player in the KHL) and Dan Corso are both feeling uneasy

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Agent Alan Walsh never one to mince words

“I have never been a big proponent of guys going over to play in the KHL,” Allan Walsh said in an e-mail. “It’s not just the air travel. [New Jersey Devils winger] Patrik Elias almost died in Magnitogorsk during the lockout when he was stricken with hepatitis and his liver shut down. He was in a crumbling hospital packed with seriously ill patients and subpar medical treatment.”

 

[higgyfan4]

 

[BOSSMANPC]

I have no fear of flying but even I get a little uneasy about flying in small commuter jets let alone one named Yak.

 

[thedddd]

Here is part of tribute like above along with an interview with the one player who didn't get on the plane.


It starts at about 2:20 in.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

sorry if it was posted already this weekend

Drunken navigator shares blame in Russian jet crash - Yahoo! News

 

[dash]

jstew, I think that's a different crash (as the story says that crash happened in June)

 

[jstewismybastardson]

jstew, I think that's a different crash (as the story says that crash happened in June)

Im drunk as well !