KHL Tragedy

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011, is a very tragic day in sports. A private team plane carrying the Russian Hockey team Lokomotiv of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) crashed in Central Russia near the city of Yaroslavl, 150 miles northeast of Moscow. According to ESPN's website and along with the NHL website, these two sources say that at least 43 people were killed; which most were members of the team and two other people on board were critically injured. Currently the information on how the plane went down is still unknown at this point but some Russian news agencies say it was due to technical problems. The plane that team traveled on was built in 1993 and belonged to a small Moscow-based Yak Service company.  It had 45 people on board, including 37 passengers and eight crew. Out of all the years that I have followed sports, I have never seen a horrible accident like this. With this horrible tragedy today in sports; lets take the time to sit down and pray for these players and their families. AMEN...