MINSK, Belarus – Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) season’s opening was postponed due to the gloomy incident in which 37 members of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl died in Wednesday's plane crash while on their way to Minsk to open the KHL season.
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| Dynamo Minsk's Heartbreaking Tribute to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl |
When the Russian Yak-42 jet aircraft crashed on Wednesday, it was carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl players to their season opener against Dynamo Minsk.
With the KHL season postponed until Monday, Dynamo chose to honor the Lokomotiv team on the ice on Thursday night during the time they would have been playing.
More than 15,000 fans including league officials and politicians came to watch Dynamo take the ice opposite photos of the lost Lokomotiv players and coaches. As an orchestra played a requiem, Dynamo players took turns putting pucks into their own empty net, as the names of the Lokomotiv dead were read out.
Watch the video of the tribute paid by Dynamo Minsk to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl:
Watch the video of the tribute paid by Dynamo Minsk to Lokomotiv Yaroslavl:
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