Hockey Off-Season

Another hockey tragedy this morning. A Russian plane carrying a KHL team crashed killing 43 and leaving 1 critically injured. More details are coming out. So sad !

This was on the cbc.ca website:

A passenger jet carrying a KHL hockey team has crashed while taking off in western Russia, killing at least 43 people, according to officials. Russian media reports that several foreign players were on board.
The emergency situations ministry said the 120-seat Yak-42 plane carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team crashed Wednesday after leaving an airport near the city of Yaroslavl, on the Volga River northeast of Moscow. It said two people survived and are critically injured.

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Russia Today reported on its website that several of the victims were foreign players for the club, but the news agency did not list any names.
The team's website lists Canadian Brad McCrimmon, a former NHL player, as head coach, and says the team includes Canadian player Ramzi Abid, who played 68 NHL games for the Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, Atlanta Thrashers and Nashville Predators between 2002 and 2007.
The 2010 official photograph of the KHL's Locomotiv Yaroslavl. It is unclear how many of those pictured were on board a passenger jet that crashed Wednesday northeast of Moscow. Locomotiv Yaroslavl
The team's 2011 roster also includes former Vancouver Canuck Pavol Demitra and former Ottawa Senator Karel Rachunek, as well as former NHLers Josef Vasicek and Karlis Skrastins. Former NHLers Igor Korolev and Alexander Karpovtsev are listed as the team's assistant coaches.
But it is unclear whether any of those players were on board the plane that crashed Wednesday. Russian officials said Locomotiv player Alexander Galimov survived the crash along with a crewmember.
Shortly after news of the crash emerged, Riley Armstrong, who was also listed on the team's roster, posted a Twitter message saying he was not on board the flight because he is attending a team training camp in St. John's.
"I'm safe but thanks for the kind words," he said on Twitter. "Pray and think of the players and their families on that flight."
CBC Hockey Night in Canada's Elliotte Friedman reported that some of the names being speculated about are from an old KHL roster.
"Let's just wait a little. What an awful tragedy," he said on Twitter.
Russia's emergency situations ministry says a Yak-42 jet similar to the one shown crashed immediately after takeoff on Wednesday as it was carrying the Lokomotiv KHL hockey team from Yaroslavl, Russia en route to Minsk, Belarus.(Courtesy Pawel Kierzkowski)
The team was heading to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where it was to play Thursday against Dinamo Minsk in the opening game of the season of the Kontinental Hockey League.
The KHL is a league of several ex-Soviet nations rivalling the NHL in terms of salary and attracting high-calibre talent to Russia in recent years.
McCrimmon, originally from Dodsland, Saskatchewan, is a former assistant coach for the New York Islanders, Calgary Flames, Atlanta Thrashers and Detroit Red Wings. His NHL career spanned 18 seasons and 1,222 games with five teams, including the Flames, the Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers and Detroit.

Also Sidney Crosby will be addressing his future today. He's been battling post-concussion syndrome and his immediate hockey future could be in doubt.
On the wood front, I've been getting used to my new Ellsworth grind gouge. I really like its weight and length. I'm trying to see what the best way is to sharpen it. It works very good as a rougher and scraper.