1 Year since Darkest day in Ice Hockey history

On September 7, 2011, the Lokomotiv club was to travel to Minsk for their first game of the 2011–12 KHL season when the airplane they were in caught fire and crashed shortly after take-off, from Tunoshna Airport. Almost the entire team of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl was killed. Of the 45 passengers, only a flight attendant survived in one of the deadliest aviation accidents in the history of sports. The Opening Cup game in Ufa, which was already under way when news of the disaster arrived, was abandoned and the start of the season postponed by 5 days by the tragedy which touched hockey fans around the world. Yaroslav Lokomotiv was given a one-year hiatus from the KHL to rebuild its program. The team this month returned to compete in Russia's top league with a remade roster featuring players promoted from the club's farm team, as well several imports from North American hockey circles.

Now, Sept. 7 will live in infamy for hockey fans around the world.
They will never be forgotten

Players.                                           

Vitaly Anikeyenko                        

Mikhail Balandin

Gennady Churilov

Pavol Demitra

Robert Dietrich

Alexander Galimov

Marat Kalimulin

Alexander Kalyanin

Andrei Kiryukhin

Nikita Klyukin

Stefan Liv

Jan Marek

Sergei Ostapchuk

Karel Rachůnek

Ruslan Salei

Maxim Shuvalov

Kārlis Skrastiņš

Pavel Snurnitsyn

Daniil Sobchenko

Ivan Tkachenko

Pavel Trakhanov

Yuri Urychev

Josef Vašíček

Alexander Vasyunov

Alexander Vyukhin

Artem Yarchuk

Team Staff.

Yuri Bakhvalov

Aleksandr Belyaev

Alexander Karpovtsev

Igor Korolev

Nikolai Krivonosov

Yevgeni Kunnov

Vyacheslav Kuznetsov

Brad McCrimmon

Vladimir Piskunov

Yevgeni Sidorov

Andrei Zimin