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2011 NHL Off-Season: The Puck Boat edition

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UPDATE: Puck Daddy's Dmitry Chesnokov reports that "Lokomotiv official tells Sovetsky Sport 'everyone from the main roster was on the plane plus four players from the youth team.' Lokomotiv official said the entire team was on the plane because they were traveling for the 1st game of the season, a celebration."
 
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Wow, I'm just seeing the stuff on Lokomotiv. That is crazy. How very sad. What next, seriously?
 
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And the four-letter network has nothing... wonder why they haven't fallen all over themselves to cover a tragedy.
 
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Latest is 45 on the plane - 37 passengers and 8 crew - 43 dead with 2 survivors.

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Eight crew members are also among the dead, according to reports. According to Russian aviation officials, two passengers survived the crash, but are in critical condition. According to Sov Sport, one of the survivors is Russian forward Alexander Galimov.

According to Sov Sport, Locomotiv has confirmed that the entire main roster, plus four players from the youth team, were on the plane. There are unconfirmed reports, however, that Ruslan Salei, a veteran defenseman, was in Minsk, Belarus awaiting the arrival of the team. Salei makes his off-season home in Minsk.

The Locomotiv roster was full of players with NHL ties.

The team's head coach, Brad McCrimmon, played in the NHL and most recently served as an assistant coach with the Detroit Red Wings before taking the Yaroslavl job in May. Defenseman Karel Rachunek, Salei and Karlis Skrastins, as well as forwards Pavol Demitra and Josef Vasicek all spent a good deal of time in the NHL. Forward Alexander Vasyunov played a handful of games with the New Jersey Devils this past season.

Former NHLers Igor Korolev and Alexander Karpovtsev were listed as assistant coaches for Lokomotiv.
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One player (Alexander Galimov) hospitalized with burns to 80% of his body.
 
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Always wondered what would happen if this happened in the NHL. Would the AHL team move up? Would the league do an emergency Expansion-style draft?
 
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Always wondered what would happen if this happened in the NHL. Would the AHL team move up? Would the league do an emergency Expansion-style draft?
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Drew Margary wrote something about that for Deadspin a couple months ago in his mailbag. I think every league has some sort of contingency plan, but none of them release the details.
 
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Drew Margary wrote something about that for Deadspin a couple months ago in his mailbag. I think every league has some sort of contingency plan, but none of them release the details.
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I guess it came out in the Coyotes bankruptcy:

It’s horrible to consider — a plane crash wipes out an entire NHL team — but the league has thought about it nonetheless.

That’s why the league requires teams to have a $1-million (all figures US) insurance policy on each player, one of the provisos in the NHL bylaws made public over the weekend in court filings regarding the bankruptcy of the Phoenix Coyotes.

If a team is left with fewer than 14 players and one goaltender following some sort of catastrophe, the league sets in motion its Emergency Rehabilitation Plan.

First, the “disabled team” would be allowed to negotiate to buy players under contract from other teams, with payment coming from the insurance money.

If that didn’t fill out the roster, a draft would be held, much like an expansion draft. Teams could protect 10 players and one goalie.

The disabled team would be allowed to take no more than one player from each of the other teams. The price for each player is $1 million in insurance money.
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http://www.metronews.ca/edmonton/sports/article/241904--nhl-bylaws-cover-worst-case-scenarios
 
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Drew Margary wrote something about that for Deadspin a couple months ago in his mailbag. I think every league has some sort of contingency plan, but none of them release the details.
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Viktor Tikhonov suggesting that every KHL team send at least one player to fill their roster so that they may have a season.
 
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