Hockey’s Tragic Summer Continues

The worst summer / off-season in the history of hockey continues. An unbelievable tragedy in Russia today as 43 people lost their lives in a plane crash. Among those lost to the hockey world is former Flame Brad McCrimmon.

• Darkest day in the history of hockey (IIHF President)
• Reaction to the crash from the Flames (CTV) & (Flames.com)
• Russian news coverage in English – (RT)
• Alex Ovechkin calls it a nationanal tragedy (Washington Post)
• One of the worst plane crashes involving a professional sports team (TSN)
• Story as per CNN
• Story as per the Guardian (UK)
• Former NHL players in crash (NHL.com)

by M Smith