2011–12 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl season
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The 2011–12 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
season will to be the franchise's 52nd season
of play in professional ice hockey in Russia. It was supposed to be its fourth season in the Kontinental Hockey League
(KHL). The season was scheduled to start on September 8, 2011. However, on September 7, while traveling to their season opener, the team's plane crashed
, killing 43 people, including 25 roster players, and 11 members of the team staff. Only Alexander Galimov
survived the initial impact of the crash with severe injuries, but died on September 12. Another roster player, Maxim Zyuzyakin
, did not travel with the team on the plane. As a consequence, the league cancelled the September 7 Opening Cup
game between Salavat Yulaev
and Atlant already in progress, postponing the opening of the KHL season until September 12.
The tragedy forced Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to cancel their participation in the 2011–12 KHL season
. The club will instead participate in the 2011–12 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL, in December 2011 and will be eligible for the VHL playoffs. Also, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's squad for the 2012–13 KHL season will automatically be qualified for the KHL playoffs that season, and the club may request allowance to use more than six non-Russian
players in the KHL squad.
4–2 to Atlant. Following this playoff disappointment, eleven players (most notably former NHLers Daniel Tjärnqvist
and Alexander Korolyuk
) left the team, and nine players were added to the roster for the upcoming 2011–12 KHL season
. The players set to make their debut with the team notably included former NHLers Ruslan Salei
and Kārlis Skrastiņš
. Also set to make their coaching debuts were former NHLers Igor Korolev
and Brad McCrimmon
.
, winning 5–2. Alexander Galimov
, the sole team survivor of the initial impact, scored the last goal of that game, sealing the win for Lokomotiv with an empty net goal.
Yak-42 that was chartered by the team crashed on takeoff
from Tunoshna Airport
in Yaroslavl
, into the Volga River
. Alexander Galimov survived the crash, but later died of his injuries. Goalie coach Jorma Valtonen
and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin
were not on the flight.
that a disaster draft
will be conducted to assemble a new team for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. Every other team in the league will select up to three players for the pool of 40–45 players for Lokomotiv to select in the disaster draft, which will select up to 14 players, as five players will be promoted from Lokomotiv's youth team, and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin
, who did not travel with the team will form the core of the roster before the start of the disaster draft. The drafted players will continue to receive salaries from their respective teams. Lokomotiv's former coach Petr Vorobiev
has been hired as the new head coach. On September 10, at the team's public memorial service team president Yuri Yakovlev announced that Lokomotiv would not participate in the 2011–12 KHL season
.
The club will instead participate in the 2011–12 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL. In October 2011, the team announced that its first game in the VHL would be on 12 December 2011. Players between 17 and 22 years old under contract to KHL and VHL teams will be made available for Lokomotiv to build a roster. The team will play 22 games in the VHL, playing each team once. Its participation in the playoffs will be dependent on its winning percentage compared to other teams at the end of the season.
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The 2011–12 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
season will to be the franchise's 52nd season
of play in professional ice hockey in Russia. It was supposed to be its fourth season in the Kontinental Hockey League
(KHL). The season was scheduled to start on September 8, 2011. However, on September 7, while traveling to their season opener, the team's plane crashed
, killing 43 people, including 25 roster players, and 11 members of the team staff. Only Alexander Galimov
survived the initial impact of the crash with severe injuries, but died on September 12. Another roster player, Maxim Zyuzyakin
, did not travel with the team on the plane. As a consequence, the league cancelled the September 7 Opening Cup
game between Salavat Yulaev
and Atlant already in progress, postponing the opening of the KHL season until September 12.
The tragedy forced Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to cancel their participation in the 2011–12 KHL season
. The club will instead participate in the 2011–12 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL, in December 2011 and will be eligible for the VHL playoffs. Also, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's squad for the 2012–13 KHL season will automatically be qualified for the KHL playoffs that season, and the club may request allowance to use more than six non-Russian
players in the KHL squad.
4–2 to Atlant. Following this playoff disappointment, eleven players (most notably former NHLers Daniel Tjärnqvist
and Alexander Korolyuk
) left the team, and nine players were added to the roster for the upcoming 2011–12 KHL season
. The players set to make their debut with the team notably included former NHLers Ruslan Salei
and Kārlis Skrastiņš
. Also set to make their coaching debuts were former NHLers Igor Korolev
and Brad McCrimmon
.
, winning 5–2. Alexander Galimov
, the sole team survivor of the initial impact, scored the last goal of that game, sealing the win for Lokomotiv with an empty net goal.
{| class="toccolours collapsible" style="width:90%; clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
! colspan="11" style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| 2011 pre-season game log: 7–2–0
|- style="text-align:center; background:#ddd;"
| # || Date || Visitor || Score || Home || OT/SO || Decision || Reference
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 1 || August 10 (in Visp
, Switzerland
) || Lokomotiv || 7 - 2 || EHC Visp
|| || Liv
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2 || August 12 (in Leukerbad
, Switzerland) || Lokomotiv || 3 - 4 || SC Bern
|| || Liv
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 3 || August 13 (in Leukerbad, Switzerland) || Lokomotiv || 5 - 1 || HC Ambrì-Piotta
|| || Vyukhin
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 4 || August 23 (in Riga
, Latvia
) || Lokomotiv || 2 - 3 || Neftekhimik || SO || Vyukhin
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 5 || August 24 (in Riga, Latvia) || Lokomotiv || 1 - 0 || Atlant || || Liv
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 6 || August 26 (in Riga, Latvia) || Lokomotiv || 3 - 0 || Dinamo Minsk
|| || Liv
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 7 || August 27 (in Riga, Latvia) || Lokomotiv || 3 - 0 || Neftekhimik || || Liv
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 8 || September 1 || Severstal
|| 3 - 5 || Lokomotiv || || Vyukhin
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 9 || September 3 || Torpedo
|| 2 - 5 || Lokomotiv || || Liv
||
|}
Yak-42 that was chartered by the team crashed on takeoff
from Tunoshna Airport
in Yaroslavl
, into the Volga River
. Alexander Galimov survived the crash, but later died of his injuries. Goalie coach Jorma Valtonen
and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin
were not on the flight.
that a disaster draft
will be conducted to assemble a new team for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. Every other team in the league will select up to three players for the pool of 40–45 players for Lokomotiv to select in the disaster draft, which will select up to 14 players, as five players will be promoted from Lokomotiv's youth team, and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin
, who did not travel with the team will form the core of the roster before the start of the disaster draft. The drafted players will continue to receive salaries from their respective teams. Lokomotiv's former coach Petr Vorobiev
has been hired as the new head coach. On September 10, at the team's public memorial service team president Yuri Yakovlev announced that Lokomotiv would not participate in the 2011–12 KHL season
.
The club will instead participate in the 2011–12 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL. In October 2011, the team announced that its first game in the VHL would be on 12 December 2011. Players between 17 and 22 years old under contract to KHL and VHL teams will be made available for Lokomotiv to build a roster. The team will play 22 games in the VHL, playing each team once. Its participation in the playoffs will be dependent on its winning percentage compared to other teams at the end of the season.
|-
! colspan=2 style="background:#0060A9; color: #FFFFFF;" | 2011–12 game log
|- valign="top"
|
The 2011–12 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
season will to be the franchise's 52nd season
of play in professional ice hockey in Russia. It was supposed to be its fourth season in the Kontinental Hockey League
(KHL). The season was scheduled to start on September 8, 2011. However, on September 7, while traveling to their season opener, the team's plane crashed
, killing 43 people, including 25 roster players, and 11 members of the team staff. Only Alexander Galimov
survived the initial impact of the crash with severe injuries, but died on September 12. Another roster player, Maxim Zyuzyakin
, did not travel with the team on the plane. As a consequence, the league cancelled the September 7 Opening Cup
game between Salavat Yulaev
and Atlant already in progress, postponing the opening of the KHL season until September 12.
The tragedy forced Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to cancel their participation in the 2011–12 KHL season
. The club will instead participate in the 2011–12 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL, in December 2011 and will be eligible for the VHL playoffs. Also, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's squad for the 2012–13 KHL season will automatically be qualified for the KHL playoffs that season, and the club may request allowance to use more than six non-Russian
players in the KHL squad.
4–2 to Atlant. Following this playoff disappointment, eleven players (most notably former NHLers Daniel Tjärnqvist
and Alexander Korolyuk
) left the team, and nine players were added to the roster for the upcoming 2011–12 KHL season
. The players set to make their debut with the team notably included former NHLers Ruslan Salei
and Kārlis Skrastiņš
. Also set to make their coaching debuts were former NHLers Igor Korolev
and Brad McCrimmon
.
, winning 5–2. Alexander Galimov
, the sole team survivor of the initial impact, scored the last goal of that game, sealing the win for Lokomotiv with an empty net goal.
{| class="toccolours collapsible" style="width:90%; clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
! colspan="11" style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| 2011 pre-season game log: 7–2–0
|- style="text-align:center; background:#ddd;"
| # || Date || Visitor || Score || Home || OT/SO || Decision || Reference
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 1 || August 10 (in Visp
, Switzerland
) || Lokomotiv || 7 - 2 || EHC Visp
|| || Liv
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2 || August 12 (in Leukerbad
, Switzerland) || Lokomotiv || 3 - 4 || SC Bern
|| || Liv
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 3 || August 13 (in Leukerbad, Switzerland) || Lokomotiv || 5 - 1 || HC Ambrì-Piotta
|| || Vyukhin
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 4 || August 23 (in Riga
, Latvia
) || Lokomotiv || 2 - 3 || Neftekhimik || SO || Vyukhin
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 5 || August 24 (in Riga, Latvia) || Lokomotiv || 1 - 0 || Atlant || || Liv
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 6 || August 26 (in Riga, Latvia) || Lokomotiv || 3 - 0 || Dinamo Minsk
|| || Liv
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 7 || August 27 (in Riga, Latvia) || Lokomotiv || 3 - 0 || Neftekhimik || || Liv
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 8 || September 1 || Severstal
|| 3 - 5 || Lokomotiv || || Vyukhin
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 9 || September 3 || Torpedo
|| 2 - 5 || Lokomotiv || || Liv
||
|}
Yak-42 that was chartered by the team crashed on takeoff
from Tunoshna Airport
in Yaroslavl
, into the Volga River
. Alexander Galimov survived the crash, but later died of his injuries. Goalie coach Jorma Valtonen
and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin
were not on the flight.
that a disaster draft
will be conducted to assemble a new team for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. Every other team in the league will select up to three players for the pool of 40–45 players for Lokomotiv to select in the disaster draft, which will select up to 14 players, as five players will be promoted from Lokomotiv's youth team, and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin
, who did not travel with the team will form the core of the roster before the start of the disaster draft. The drafted players will continue to receive salaries from their respective teams. Lokomotiv's former coach Petr Vorobiev
has been hired as the new head coach. On September 10, at the team's public memorial service team president Yuri Yakovlev announced that Lokomotiv would not participate in the 2011–12 KHL season
.
The club will instead participate in the 2011–12 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL. In October 2011, the team announced that its first game in the VHL would be on 12 December 2011. Players between 17 and 22 years old under contract to KHL and VHL teams will be made available for Lokomotiv to build a roster. The team will play 22 games in the VHL, playing each team once. Its participation in the playoffs will be dependent on its winning percentage compared to other teams at the end of the season.
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|- valign="top"
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{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" class="wikitable"
|-
! width="5%" | Game
! width="5%" | December
! width="10%" | Opponent
! width="5%" | Score
! width="5%" | Record
|- align="center"
| 1 || 12 || Neftyanik Almetyevsk
|| ||
|- align="center"
| 2 || 14 || Ariada-Akpars Volzhsk
|| ||
|- align="center"
| 3 || 20 || @ Molot-Prikamye Perm
|| ||
|- align="center"
| 4 || 22 || @ Izhstal Izhevsk
|| ||
|- align="center"
| 5 || 28 || HC Donbass
||||
|}
|-
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Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator....
season will to be the franchise's 52nd season
Season (sports)
In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an...
of play in professional ice hockey in Russia. It was supposed to be its fourth season in the Kontinental Hockey League
Kontinental Hockey League
The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....
(KHL). The season was scheduled to start on September 8, 2011. However, on September 7, while traveling to their season opener, the team's plane crashed
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred at 16:05 MT on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl...
, killing 43 people, including 25 roster players, and 11 members of the team staff. Only Alexander Galimov
Alexander Galimov
Alexander Saidgereyevich Galimov was a Russian professional ice hockey player. At the time of his death, he was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...
survived the initial impact of the crash with severe injuries, but died on September 12. Another roster player, Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League....
, did not travel with the team on the plane. As a consequence, the league cancelled the September 7 Opening Cup
Opening Cup
The Lokomotiv Cup , formerly the Opening Cup , is the trophy awarded to the winner of the first game of every regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League. This match is played between the previous season's play-off champion and runner-up. The game is played on the home ice of the previous...
game between Salavat Yulaev
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev is a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League, and were part of Group C of the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League.-History:The...
and Atlant already in progress, postponing the opening of the KHL season until September 12.
The tragedy forced Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to cancel their participation in the 2011–12 KHL season
2011–12 KHL season
The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the start of the...
. The club will instead participate in the 2011–12 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL, in December 2011 and will be eligible for the VHL playoffs. Also, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's squad for the 2012–13 KHL season will automatically be qualified for the KHL playoffs that season, and the club may request allowance to use more than six non-Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
players in the KHL squad.
Off-season
Lokomotiv lost in the 2011 KHL Western Conference FinalsKHL Conference Finals
The Kontinental Hockey League Conference Finals are the Eastern Conference and Western Conference Championship series of the KHL. The Conference Finals are best-of-seven series. The two series are played after the first and second rounds of the playoffs and before the Gagarin Cup Finals. The final...
4–2 to Atlant. Following this playoff disappointment, eleven players (most notably former NHLers Daniel Tjärnqvist
Daniel Tjärnqvist
Daniel Tjärnqvist is a Swedish ice hockey defenceman playing along with his younger brother, Mathias, for Djurgårdens IF in the Swedish elite league Elitserien.- Playing career :...
and Alexander Korolyuk
Alexander Korolyuk
Alexander Ivanovich Korolyuk is a Russian professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.He was drafted in the sixth round, 141st overall, by the San Jose Sharks in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft....
) left the team, and nine players were added to the roster for the upcoming 2011–12 KHL season
2011–12 KHL season
The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the start of the...
. The players set to make their debut with the team notably included former NHLers Ruslan Salei
Ruslan Salei
Ruslan Albertovich "Rusty" Salei was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player. Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, who selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft...
and Kārlis Skrastiņš
Karlis Skrastinš
Kārlis Skrastiņš was a Latvian professional ice hockey player. Skrastins was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League and was on board the team plane which crashed on September 7, 2011...
. Also set to make their coaching debuts were former NHLers Igor Korolev
Igor Korolev
Igor Borisovich Korolev was a Russian/Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Korolev played over 700 games in the National Hockey League from 1992 until 2004. Korolev returned to Russia, and played a further seven seasons in the Russian Super League and the Kontinental Hockey League ...
and Brad McCrimmon
Brad McCrimmon
Byron Brad McCrimmon from Plenty, Saskatchewan, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. McCrimmon played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League between 1979 and 1997. From 1997 to his death, he was a coach, ultimately with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League...
.
Pre-season
Prior to the crash, the team played nine pre-season games, finishing with a 7–2 record. The team won their second straight Latvian Railways Cup (August 23–27), a pre-season KHL tournament. On September 3, the players played their last game, at home against TorpedoTorpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod is an ice hockey club in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League....
, winning 5–2. Alexander Galimov
Alexander Galimov
Alexander Saidgereyevich Galimov was a Russian professional ice hockey player. At the time of his death, he was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...
, the sole team survivor of the initial impact, scored the last goal of that game, sealing the win for Lokomotiv with an empty net goal.
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| # | Date | Visitor | Score | Home | OT/SO | Decision | Reference | |||
| 1 | August 10 (in Visp Visp Visp is the capital of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.-Geography:Visp has an area, , of . Of this area, 17.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 59.7% is forested... , Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... ) |
Lokomotiv | 7 - 2 | EHC Visp EHC Visp EHC Visp is a Swiss professional ice hockey team.*... |
Liv Stefan Liv Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe... |
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| 2 | August 12 (in Leukerbad Leukerbad Leukerbad is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.- History :The story of Leukerbad dates back to the 4th century B.C. Graves and ceramics attest the presence of habitation in Leukerbad... , Switzerland) |
Lokomotiv | 3 - 4 | SC Bern SC Bern Schlittschuh Club Bern is an ice hockey team based in Bern, Switzerland. The club was the most attended team in Europe for the 2010-11 season, averaging 15,856 spectators.... |
Liv Stefan Liv Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe... |
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| 3 | August 13 (in Leukerbad, Switzerland) | Lokomotiv | 5 - 1 | HC Ambrì-Piotta HC Ambri-Piotta Hockey Club Ambrì-Piotta is a Swiss professional ice hockey club and a member of the National League A. The club was founded September 19, 1937 and is also known as "Bianco-Blu"... |
Vyukhin Alexander Vyukhin Alexander Vyukhin was a Ukrainian professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League . He perished in the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash outside of Yaroslavl.-Playing career:... |
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| 4 | August 23 (in Riga Riga Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,... , Latvia Latvia Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden... ) |
Lokomotiv | 2 - 3 | Neftekhimik | SO | Vyukhin Alexander Vyukhin Alexander Vyukhin was a Ukrainian professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League . He perished in the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash outside of Yaroslavl.-Playing career:... |
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| 5 | August 24 (in Riga, Latvia) | Lokomotiv | 1 - 0 | Atlant | Liv Stefan Liv Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe... |
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| 6 | August 26 (in Riga, Latvia) | Lokomotiv | 3 - 0 | Dinamo Minsk HC Dinamo Minsk Dinamo Minsk is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs only once, during the 2010-11 KHL season.... |
Liv Stefan Liv Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe... |
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| 7 | August 27 (in Riga, Latvia) | Lokomotiv | 3 - 0 | Neftekhimik | Liv Stefan Liv Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe... |
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| 8 | September 1 | Severstal Severstal Cherepovets HC Severstal Cherepovets is a professional ice hockey team based in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:Founded in 1956, the club was originally known as Stroitel Cherepovets... |
3 - 5 | Lokomotiv | Vyukhin Alexander Vyukhin Alexander Vyukhin was a Ukrainian professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League . He perished in the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash outside of Yaroslavl.-Playing career:... |
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| 9 | September 3 | Torpedo Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod is an ice hockey club in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.... |
2 - 5 | Lokomotiv | Liv Stefan Liv Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe... |
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Crash
All players and most of the team staff were killed on 7 September 2011 when the Yak-ServiceYak-Service
Yak-Service was an airline based in Moscow, Russia. It operates executive passenger charters. It was established on 12 February 1993 and started operations on 25 November 1993...
Yak-42 that was chartered by the team crashed on takeoff
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred at 16:05 MT on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl...
from Tunoshna Airport
Tunoshna Airport
Tunoshna is an airport in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia located 18 km southeast of Yaroslavl. It services medium-sized airliners. It does not serve any scheduled airlines....
in Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historical part of the city, a World Heritage Site, is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl Rivers. It is one of the Golden Ring cities, a group of historic cities...
, into the Volga River
Volga River
The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed. It flows through central Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia. Out of the twenty largest cities of Russia, eleven, including the capital Moscow, are situated in the Volga's drainage...
. Alexander Galimov survived the crash, but later died of his injuries. Goalie coach Jorma Valtonen
Jorma Valtonen
Pertti Leo Jorma Valtonen is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga.Valtonen, who was born in Turku, Finland, played for Jokerit, TPS, Rosenlewin Urheilijat -38 and Ässät. In Italy Valtonen played for Gardena ja HC Alleghe. In West Germany he played for EHC 70 München...
and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League....
were not on the flight.
Rebuilding the team
It was announced by KHL president Alexander MedvedevAlexander Medvedev
Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev is the current Deputy Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Russian energy company Gazprom, president of the Kontinental Hockey League, and the Director-General of Gazprom's export arm Gazprom Export...
that a disaster draft
Disaster draft
A disaster draft or contingency draft is a procedure developed by professional sports leagues to rebuild a team's roster if many players are disabled or killed.-Background:...
will be conducted to assemble a new team for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. Every other team in the league will select up to three players for the pool of 40–45 players for Lokomotiv to select in the disaster draft, which will select up to 14 players, as five players will be promoted from Lokomotiv's youth team, and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League....
, who did not travel with the team will form the core of the roster before the start of the disaster draft. The drafted players will continue to receive salaries from their respective teams. Lokomotiv's former coach Petr Vorobiev
Petr Vorobiev
Petr Vorobiev is a former ice hockey player who is better known as the head coach of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Playing career:...
has been hired as the new head coach. On September 10, at the team's public memorial service team president Yuri Yakovlev announced that Lokomotiv would not participate in the 2011–12 KHL season
2011–12 KHL season
The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the start of the...
.
The club will instead participate in the 2011–12 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL. In October 2011, the team announced that its first game in the VHL would be on 12 December 2011. Players between 17 and 22 years old under contract to KHL and VHL teams will be made available for Lokomotiv to build a roster. The team will play 22 games in the VHL, playing each team once. Its participation in the playoffs will be dependent on its winning percentage compared to other teams at the end of the season.
Schedule and results
{| class="toccolours" width=90% style="clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"|-
! colspan=2 style="background:#0060A9; color: #FFFFFF;" | 2011–12 game log
|- valign="top"
|
The 2011–12 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator....
season will to be the franchise's 52nd season
Season (sports)
In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an...
of play in professional ice hockey in Russia. It was supposed to be its fourth season in the Kontinental Hockey League
Kontinental Hockey League
The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....
(KHL). The season was scheduled to start on September 8, 2011. However, on September 7, while traveling to their season opener, the team's plane crashed
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred at 16:05 MT on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl...
, killing 43 people, including 25 roster players, and 11 members of the team staff. Only Alexander Galimov
Alexander Galimov
Alexander Saidgereyevich Galimov was a Russian professional ice hockey player. At the time of his death, he was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...
survived the initial impact of the crash with severe injuries, but died on September 12. Another roster player, Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League....
, did not travel with the team on the plane. As a consequence, the league cancelled the September 7 Opening Cup
Opening Cup
The Lokomotiv Cup , formerly the Opening Cup , is the trophy awarded to the winner of the first game of every regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League. This match is played between the previous season's play-off champion and runner-up. The game is played on the home ice of the previous...
game between Salavat Yulaev
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev is a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League, and were part of Group C of the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League.-History:The...
and Atlant already in progress, postponing the opening of the KHL season until September 12.
The tragedy forced Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to cancel their participation in the 2011–12 KHL season
2011–12 KHL season
The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the start of the...
. The club will instead participate in the 2011–12 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL, in December 2011 and will be eligible for the VHL playoffs. Also, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's squad for the 2012–13 KHL season will automatically be qualified for the KHL playoffs that season, and the club may request allowance to use more than six non-Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
players in the KHL squad.
Off-season
Lokomotiv lost in the 2011 KHL Western Conference FinalsKHL Conference Finals
The Kontinental Hockey League Conference Finals are the Eastern Conference and Western Conference Championship series of the KHL. The Conference Finals are best-of-seven series. The two series are played after the first and second rounds of the playoffs and before the Gagarin Cup Finals. The final...
4–2 to Atlant. Following this playoff disappointment, eleven players (most notably former NHLers Daniel Tjärnqvist
Daniel Tjärnqvist
Daniel Tjärnqvist is a Swedish ice hockey defenceman playing along with his younger brother, Mathias, for Djurgårdens IF in the Swedish elite league Elitserien.- Playing career :...
and Alexander Korolyuk
Alexander Korolyuk
Alexander Ivanovich Korolyuk is a Russian professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.He was drafted in the sixth round, 141st overall, by the San Jose Sharks in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft....
) left the team, and nine players were added to the roster for the upcoming 2011–12 KHL season
2011–12 KHL season
The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the start of the...
. The players set to make their debut with the team notably included former NHLers Ruslan Salei
Ruslan Salei
Ruslan Albertovich "Rusty" Salei was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player. Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, who selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft...
and Kārlis Skrastiņš
Karlis Skrastinš
Kārlis Skrastiņš was a Latvian professional ice hockey player. Skrastins was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League and was on board the team plane which crashed on September 7, 2011...
. Also set to make their coaching debuts were former NHLers Igor Korolev
Igor Korolev
Igor Borisovich Korolev was a Russian/Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Korolev played over 700 games in the National Hockey League from 1992 until 2004. Korolev returned to Russia, and played a further seven seasons in the Russian Super League and the Kontinental Hockey League ...
and Brad McCrimmon
Brad McCrimmon
Byron Brad McCrimmon from Plenty, Saskatchewan, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. McCrimmon played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League between 1979 and 1997. From 1997 to his death, he was a coach, ultimately with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League...
.
Pre-season
Prior to the crash, the team played nine pre-season games, finishing with a 7–2 record. The team won their second straight Latvian Railways Cup (August 23–27), a pre-season KHL tournament. On September 3, the players played their last game, at home against TorpedoTorpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod is an ice hockey club in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League....
, winning 5–2. Alexander Galimov
Alexander Galimov
Alexander Saidgereyevich Galimov was a Russian professional ice hockey player. At the time of his death, he was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...
, the sole team survivor of the initial impact, scored the last goal of that game, sealing the win for Lokomotiv with an empty net goal.
{| class="toccolours collapsible" style="width:90%; clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
! colspan="11" style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| 2011 pre-season game log: 7–2–0
|- style="text-align:center; background:#ddd;"
| # || Date || Visitor || Score || Home || OT/SO || Decision || Reference
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 1 || August 10 (in Visp
Visp
Visp is the capital of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.-Geography:Visp has an area, , of . Of this area, 17.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 59.7% is forested...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
) || Lokomotiv || 7 - 2 || EHC Visp
EHC Visp
EHC Visp is a Swiss professional ice hockey team.*...
|| || Liv
Stefan Liv
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 2 || August 12 (in Leukerbad
Leukerbad
Leukerbad is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.- History :The story of Leukerbad dates back to the 4th century B.C. Graves and ceramics attest the presence of habitation in Leukerbad...
, Switzerland) || Lokomotiv || 3 - 4 || SC Bern
SC Bern
Schlittschuh Club Bern is an ice hockey team based in Bern, Switzerland. The club was the most attended team in Europe for the 2010-11 season, averaging 15,856 spectators....
|| || Liv
Stefan Liv
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 3 || August 13 (in Leukerbad, Switzerland) || Lokomotiv || 5 - 1 || HC Ambrì-Piotta
HC Ambri-Piotta
Hockey Club Ambrì-Piotta is a Swiss professional ice hockey club and a member of the National League A. The club was founded September 19, 1937 and is also known as "Bianco-Blu"...
|| || Vyukhin
Alexander Vyukhin
Alexander Vyukhin was a Ukrainian professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League . He perished in the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash outside of Yaroslavl.-Playing career:...
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#fbb;"
| 4 || August 23 (in Riga
Riga
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...
, Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
) || Lokomotiv || 2 - 3 || Neftekhimik || SO || Vyukhin
Alexander Vyukhin
Alexander Vyukhin was a Ukrainian professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League . He perished in the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash outside of Yaroslavl.-Playing career:...
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 5 || August 24 (in Riga, Latvia) || Lokomotiv || 1 - 0 || Atlant || || Liv
Stefan Liv
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 6 || August 26 (in Riga, Latvia) || Lokomotiv || 3 - 0 || Dinamo Minsk
HC Dinamo Minsk
Dinamo Minsk is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs only once, during the 2010-11 KHL season....
|| || Liv
Stefan Liv
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 7 || August 27 (in Riga, Latvia) || Lokomotiv || 3 - 0 || Neftekhimik || || Liv
Stefan Liv
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 8 || September 1 || Severstal
Severstal Cherepovets
HC Severstal Cherepovets is a professional ice hockey team based in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:Founded in 1956, the club was originally known as Stroitel Cherepovets...
|| 3 - 5 || Lokomotiv || || Vyukhin
Alexander Vyukhin
Alexander Vyukhin was a Ukrainian professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League . He perished in the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash outside of Yaroslavl.-Playing career:...
||
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 9 || September 3 || Torpedo
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod is an ice hockey club in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League....
|| 2 - 5 || Lokomotiv || || Liv
Stefan Liv
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
||
|}
Crash
All players and most of the team staff were killed on 7 September 2011 when the Yak-ServiceYak-Service
Yak-Service was an airline based in Moscow, Russia. It operates executive passenger charters. It was established on 12 February 1993 and started operations on 25 November 1993...
Yak-42 that was chartered by the team crashed on takeoff
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred at 16:05 MT on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl...
from Tunoshna Airport
Tunoshna Airport
Tunoshna is an airport in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia located 18 km southeast of Yaroslavl. It services medium-sized airliners. It does not serve any scheduled airlines....
in Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historical part of the city, a World Heritage Site, is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl Rivers. It is one of the Golden Ring cities, a group of historic cities...
, into the Volga River
Volga River
The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed. It flows through central Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia. Out of the twenty largest cities of Russia, eleven, including the capital Moscow, are situated in the Volga's drainage...
. Alexander Galimov survived the crash, but later died of his injuries. Goalie coach Jorma Valtonen
Jorma Valtonen
Pertti Leo Jorma Valtonen is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga.Valtonen, who was born in Turku, Finland, played for Jokerit, TPS, Rosenlewin Urheilijat -38 and Ässät. In Italy Valtonen played for Gardena ja HC Alleghe. In West Germany he played for EHC 70 München...
and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League....
were not on the flight.
Rebuilding the team
It was announced by KHL president Alexander MedvedevAlexander Medvedev
Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev is the current Deputy Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Russian energy company Gazprom, president of the Kontinental Hockey League, and the Director-General of Gazprom's export arm Gazprom Export...
that a disaster draft
Disaster draft
A disaster draft or contingency draft is a procedure developed by professional sports leagues to rebuild a team's roster if many players are disabled or killed.-Background:...
will be conducted to assemble a new team for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. Every other team in the league will select up to three players for the pool of 40–45 players for Lokomotiv to select in the disaster draft, which will select up to 14 players, as five players will be promoted from Lokomotiv's youth team, and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League....
, who did not travel with the team will form the core of the roster before the start of the disaster draft. The drafted players will continue to receive salaries from their respective teams. Lokomotiv's former coach Petr Vorobiev
Petr Vorobiev
Petr Vorobiev is a former ice hockey player who is better known as the head coach of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Playing career:...
has been hired as the new head coach. On September 10, at the team's public memorial service team president Yuri Yakovlev announced that Lokomotiv would not participate in the 2011–12 KHL season
2011–12 KHL season
The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the start of the...
.
The club will instead participate in the 2011–12 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL. In October 2011, the team announced that its first game in the VHL would be on 12 December 2011. Players between 17 and 22 years old under contract to KHL and VHL teams will be made available for Lokomotiv to build a roster. The team will play 22 games in the VHL, playing each team once. Its participation in the playoffs will be dependent on its winning percentage compared to other teams at the end of the season.
Schedule and results
{| class="toccolours" width=90% style="clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"|-
! colspan=2 style="background:#0060A9; color: #FFFFFF;" | 2011–12 game log
|- valign="top"
|
The 2011–12 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv , also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Yaroslavl. The name of the team is derived from its owner, Russian Railways, the national railroad operator....
season will to be the franchise's 52nd season
Season (sports)
In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an...
of play in professional ice hockey in Russia. It was supposed to be its fourth season in the Kontinental Hockey League
Kontinental Hockey League
The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....
(KHL). The season was scheduled to start on September 8, 2011. However, on September 7, while traveling to their season opener, the team's plane crashed
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred at 16:05 MT on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl...
, killing 43 people, including 25 roster players, and 11 members of the team staff. Only Alexander Galimov
Alexander Galimov
Alexander Saidgereyevich Galimov was a Russian professional ice hockey player. At the time of his death, he was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...
survived the initial impact of the crash with severe injuries, but died on September 12. Another roster player, Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League....
, did not travel with the team on the plane. As a consequence, the league cancelled the September 7 Opening Cup
Opening Cup
The Lokomotiv Cup , formerly the Opening Cup , is the trophy awarded to the winner of the first game of every regular season of the Kontinental Hockey League. This match is played between the previous season's play-off champion and runner-up. The game is played on the home ice of the previous...
game between Salavat Yulaev
Salavat Yulaev Ufa
Salavat Yulaev is a professional ice hockey team based in Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan, a federal subject of the Russian Federation. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey League, and were part of Group C of the 2008–09 Champions Hockey League.-History:The...
and Atlant already in progress, postponing the opening of the KHL season until September 12.
The tragedy forced Lokomotiv Yaroslavl to cancel their participation in the 2011–12 KHL season
2011–12 KHL season
The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the start of the...
. The club will instead participate in the 2011–12 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL, in December 2011 and will be eligible for the VHL playoffs. Also, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl's squad for the 2012–13 KHL season will automatically be qualified for the KHL playoffs that season, and the club may request allowance to use more than six non-Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
players in the KHL squad.
Off-season
Lokomotiv lost in the 2011 KHL Western Conference FinalsKHL Conference Finals
The Kontinental Hockey League Conference Finals are the Eastern Conference and Western Conference Championship series of the KHL. The Conference Finals are best-of-seven series. The two series are played after the first and second rounds of the playoffs and before the Gagarin Cup Finals. The final...
4–2 to Atlant. Following this playoff disappointment, eleven players (most notably former NHLers Daniel Tjärnqvist
Daniel Tjärnqvist
Daniel Tjärnqvist is a Swedish ice hockey defenceman playing along with his younger brother, Mathias, for Djurgårdens IF in the Swedish elite league Elitserien.- Playing career :...
and Alexander Korolyuk
Alexander Korolyuk
Alexander Ivanovich Korolyuk is a Russian professional ice hockey winger who currently plays for HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk in the Kontinental Hockey League.He was drafted in the sixth round, 141st overall, by the San Jose Sharks in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft....
) left the team, and nine players were added to the roster for the upcoming 2011–12 KHL season
2011–12 KHL season
The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the start of the...
. The players set to make their debut with the team notably included former NHLers Ruslan Salei
Ruslan Salei
Ruslan Albertovich "Rusty" Salei was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player. Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, who selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft...
and Kārlis Skrastiņš
Karlis Skrastinš
Kārlis Skrastiņš was a Latvian professional ice hockey player. Skrastins was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League and was on board the team plane which crashed on September 7, 2011...
. Also set to make their coaching debuts were former NHLers Igor Korolev
Igor Korolev
Igor Borisovich Korolev was a Russian/Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Korolev played over 700 games in the National Hockey League from 1992 until 2004. Korolev returned to Russia, and played a further seven seasons in the Russian Super League and the Kontinental Hockey League ...
and Brad McCrimmon
Brad McCrimmon
Byron Brad McCrimmon from Plenty, Saskatchewan, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. McCrimmon played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League between 1979 and 1997. From 1997 to his death, he was a coach, ultimately with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League...
.
Pre-season
Prior to the crash, the team played nine pre-season games, finishing with a 7–2 record. The team won their second straight Latvian Railways Cup (August 23–27), a pre-season KHL tournament. On September 3, the players played their last game, at home against TorpedoTorpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod is an ice hockey club in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League....
, winning 5–2. Alexander Galimov
Alexander Galimov
Alexander Saidgereyevich Galimov was a Russian professional ice hockey player. At the time of his death, he was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League .-Playing career:...
, the sole team survivor of the initial impact, scored the last goal of that game, sealing the win for Lokomotiv with an empty net goal.
{| class="toccolours collapsible" style="width:90%; clear:both; margin:1.5em auto; text-align:center;"
|-
! colspan="11" style="background:#0060a9; color:#fff;"| 2011 pre-season game log: 7–2–0
|- style="text-align:center; background:#ddd;"
| # || Date || Visitor || Score || Home || OT/SO || Decision || Reference
|- style="text-align:center; background:#cfc;"
| 1 || August 10 (in Visp
Visp
Visp is the capital of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.-Geography:Visp has an area, , of . Of this area, 17.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 59.7% is forested...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
) || Lokomotiv || 7 - 2 || EHC Visp
EHC Visp
EHC Visp is a Swiss professional ice hockey team.*...
|| || Liv
Stefan Liv
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
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| 2 || August 12 (in Leukerbad
Leukerbad
Leukerbad is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.- History :The story of Leukerbad dates back to the 4th century B.C. Graves and ceramics attest the presence of habitation in Leukerbad...
, Switzerland) || Lokomotiv || 3 - 4 || SC Bern
SC Bern
Schlittschuh Club Bern is an ice hockey team based in Bern, Switzerland. The club was the most attended team in Europe for the 2010-11 season, averaging 15,856 spectators....
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Stefan Liv
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
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| 3 || August 13 (in Leukerbad, Switzerland) || Lokomotiv || 5 - 1 || HC Ambrì-Piotta
HC Ambri-Piotta
Hockey Club Ambrì-Piotta is a Swiss professional ice hockey club and a member of the National League A. The club was founded September 19, 1937 and is also known as "Bianco-Blu"...
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Alexander Vyukhin
Alexander Vyukhin was a Ukrainian professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League . He perished in the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash outside of Yaroslavl.-Playing career:...
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| 4 || August 23 (in Riga
Riga
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...
, Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
) || Lokomotiv || 2 - 3 || Neftekhimik || SO || Vyukhin
Alexander Vyukhin
Alexander Vyukhin was a Ukrainian professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League . He perished in the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash outside of Yaroslavl.-Playing career:...
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| 5 || August 24 (in Riga, Latvia) || Lokomotiv || 1 - 0 || Atlant || || Liv
Stefan Liv
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
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| 6 || August 26 (in Riga, Latvia) || Lokomotiv || 3 - 0 || Dinamo Minsk
HC Dinamo Minsk
Dinamo Minsk is an ice hockey team based in Minsk, Belarus. They are members of the Tarasov Division of the Kontinental Hockey League.Dinamo has qualified for the KHL playoffs only once, during the 2010-11 KHL season....
|| || Liv
Stefan Liv
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
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| 7 || August 27 (in Riga, Latvia) || Lokomotiv || 3 - 0 || Neftekhimik || || Liv
Stefan Liv
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
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| 8 || September 1 || Severstal
Severstal Cherepovets
HC Severstal Cherepovets is a professional ice hockey team based in Cherepovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League.-History:Founded in 1956, the club was originally known as Stroitel Cherepovets...
|| 3 - 5 || Lokomotiv || || Vyukhin
Alexander Vyukhin
Alexander Vyukhin was a Ukrainian professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League . He perished in the tragic Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash outside of Yaroslavl.-Playing career:...
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| 9 || September 3 || Torpedo
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod is an ice hockey club in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. They are members of the Tarasov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League....
|| 2 - 5 || Lokomotiv || || Liv
Stefan Liv
Stefan Daniel Patryk Liv was a Polish-born Swedish professional ice hockey player. Liv played professionally in Sweden, North America and Russia. Liv played nine seasons for HV71 in Sweden. He played one season of minor league hockey in North America then returned to Europe...
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Crash
All players and most of the team staff were killed on 7 September 2011 when the Yak-ServiceYak-Service
Yak-Service was an airline based in Moscow, Russia. It operates executive passenger charters. It was established on 12 February 1993 and started operations on 25 November 1993...
Yak-42 that was chartered by the team crashed on takeoff
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred at 16:05 MT on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl...
from Tunoshna Airport
Tunoshna Airport
Tunoshna is an airport in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia located 18 km southeast of Yaroslavl. It services medium-sized airliners. It does not serve any scheduled airlines....
in Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Moscow. The historical part of the city, a World Heritage Site, is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl Rivers. It is one of the Golden Ring cities, a group of historic cities...
, into the Volga River
Volga River
The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed. It flows through central Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia. Out of the twenty largest cities of Russia, eleven, including the capital Moscow, are situated in the Volga's drainage...
. Alexander Galimov survived the crash, but later died of his injuries. Goalie coach Jorma Valtonen
Jorma Valtonen
Pertti Leo Jorma Valtonen is a retired professional ice hockey player who played in the SM-liiga.Valtonen, who was born in Turku, Finland, played for Jokerit, TPS, Rosenlewin Urheilijat -38 and Ässät. In Italy Valtonen played for Gardena ja HC Alleghe. In West Germany he played for EHC 70 München...
and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League....
were not on the flight.
Rebuilding the team
It was announced by KHL president Alexander MedvedevAlexander Medvedev
Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev is the current Deputy Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Russian energy company Gazprom, president of the Kontinental Hockey League, and the Director-General of Gazprom's export arm Gazprom Export...
that a disaster draft
Disaster draft
A disaster draft or contingency draft is a procedure developed by professional sports leagues to rebuild a team's roster if many players are disabled or killed.-Background:...
will be conducted to assemble a new team for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. Every other team in the league will select up to three players for the pool of 40–45 players for Lokomotiv to select in the disaster draft, which will select up to 14 players, as five players will be promoted from Lokomotiv's youth team, and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin
Maxim Zyuzyakin is a Russian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League....
, who did not travel with the team will form the core of the roster before the start of the disaster draft. The drafted players will continue to receive salaries from their respective teams. Lokomotiv's former coach Petr Vorobiev
Petr Vorobiev
Petr Vorobiev is a former ice hockey player who is better known as the head coach of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League.-Playing career:...
has been hired as the new head coach. On September 10, at the team's public memorial service team president Yuri Yakovlev announced that Lokomotiv would not participate in the 2011–12 KHL season
2011–12 KHL season
The 2011–12 KHL season is the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season originally began on 7 September 2011 with the Opening Cup game, but because of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which killed all but one member of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team, the start of the...
.
The club will instead participate in the 2011–12 season of the Russian Major League (VHL), the second top ice hockey league in Russia after the KHL. In October 2011, the team announced that its first game in the VHL would be on 12 December 2011. Players between 17 and 22 years old under contract to KHL and VHL teams will be made available for Lokomotiv to build a roster. The team will play 22 games in the VHL, playing each team once. Its participation in the playoffs will be dependent on its winning percentage compared to other teams at the end of the season.
Schedule and results
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December: 0-0-0 (home: 0-0-0; road: 0-0-0)
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| 1 || 12 || Neftyanik Almetyevsk
Neftyanik Almetyevsk
Neftyanik Almetyevsk is an ice hockey team in Almetyevsk, Russia. They play in the Vysshaya Liga, the second level of Russian ice hockey.-History:...
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| 2 || 14 || Ariada-Akpars Volzhsk
Ariada-Akpars Volzhsk
Ariada-Akpars Volzhsk are a professional ice hockey team based in Volzhsk, Mari El Republic, Russia. They play in the Central Division of the Russian Supreme League....
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| 3 || 20 || @ Molot-Prikamye Perm
Molot-Prikamye Perm
Molot-Prikamye Perm are a professional ice hockey team based in Perm, Perm Krai, Russia. They are currently playing in the Central Division of the Russian Supreme League....
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| 4 || 22 || @ Izhstal Izhevsk
Izhstal Izhevsk
Izhstal Izhevsk are a professional ice hockey team based in Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic, Russia. They are currently playing in the Central Division of the Russian Supreme League....
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| 5 || 28 || HC Donbass
HC Donbass
Hockey Club Donbass is a Ukrainian professional ice hockey team based in Donetsk. They are members of the Russian Major League , and are the reigning Ukrainian national champions. Following the 2010-11 season, Donbass split into two teams with their affiliate, HC Donbass-2, representing the club...
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January: 0-0-0 (home: 0-0-0; road: 0-0-0)
