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Oh wow.
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I'm absolutely devastated.
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#203 |
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This is insane. Prior to this summer, I only knew of one hockey player who had died while I actively watched hockey and that was Bourdon.
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#204 |
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Awful. RIP Belak. So rare to see a hockey player with an actual personality.
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#205 |
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Marc Savard expected to announce his retirement soon after latest checkup shows his concussion symptoms returning and the GM already said it was unlikely he would play at all this season for his safety.
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Here's my story about how we came to love Belak
Belak had been playing for the Leafs for a few years on defence. He wasn't very good, but he could fight.....and then he got moved to forward and my friends and I became fascinated with him. He clearly had no clue what he was doing. It was almost like Quinn cut his head off and sent him running around the ice. I found Belak's website and a section where you could email him so I sent him one and to my surprise he emailed back hours later. I told my friends and they did the same with the same results. We all exchange emails over time and became huge fans culminating with us painting our chests to spell out his name with signs at a Leafs Wings game. We were EXTREMELY loud during the game and Belak and his teammates saw us. Belak told us that the guys were making fun of him on the bench because his fanclub consisted of 5 fat hairy guys. Belak later emailed me and asked for us to send a picture of us at the game so he could put it on his website which is still up there. We maintained contact with him over the years. We told Belak when he was a member of the Preds that we were going to paint our chests at the Wings Preds game and he invited us to meet him down in Joe Louis Arena after the game since he was a healthy scratch and he was awesome. We were all looking so forward to Wade being on Battle of the Blades because he was sure to be a hit. What made us love Wade was he never took himself seriously and always took the time to talk to his fans. He was truly one of a kind and The Belak Brigade as we call ourselves are very sad to see him go. He was our friend and were are really going to miss him alot. |
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Gutted about Belak. He had character. Was hoping to see him on the broadcast team when I go see the Preds on the 28th.
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I also want to find the video of Belak being interviewed about breaking the goalless record... it was hilarious |
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#210 |
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All I can find is the transcript as Youtube terminated the user who had the video uploaded.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2007/...oring_drought/ |
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#211 |
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if this were Criminal Minds there would already be a team hunting for the assassin
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#212 |
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I can picture George Parros hunting down the killer with his Ivy League education, fists of fury, and lovely mustache.
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#213 |
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George Parros wearing a detective hat hunting people down
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Crosby to address the media tomorrow, Jets jerseys revealed, and Ovechkin signs with Bauer. Busy day.
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#215 |
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jesus, it's piling up. A plane carrying KHL team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl crashed, killing most of the roster/team (the official "list" hasn't been confirmed) I've read conflicting reports on survivors, as many as 4 and as little as 1 depending where you read. Included on the roster were guys like Pavol Demitra, Ruslan Salei, Karlis Skrastins, Karel Rachunek, Josef Vasicek
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#216 |
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"unconfirmed" reports that Ruslan Salei wasn't on board as the plane was en route to Minsk and he's Belarusian/was awaiting them
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#217 |
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Holy shit, horrible. I'm reading that Alexander Galimov was the lone player on board to survive. Flight engineer Alexander Sizov also survived. However both are in very serious condition.
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#218 |
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Now reports are saying that Galimov has died during surgery. Jesus christ.
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#220 |
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Demitra's agent confirmed he was on the plane. Ridiculous
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#221 |
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unreal
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#222 |
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Wow. Was almost speechless when I saw this
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Holy shit this is sad.
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#224 |
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Horrible. There will probably be a movement to ban flying now.
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#225 |
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That's just insane. And so sad. What a rough summer.
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#226 |
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Holy fuck.
Rest in peace comrades. Last edited by El Fangel; 09-07-2011 at 11:00 PM. |
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WTF is going on man. RIP to all of this. Belak played for the Blaze (my team here in England), remember him for a fight with Cairns.
Friends and partner are devastated at the loss of Pavol Demitra. |
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#228 |
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Very sad about the plane crash.
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#229 |
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Also dead is former NHLer Alexander Karpovtsev. This is so sad. I cried reading a story on Demitra.
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#230 |
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This has been the worst summer for hockey.
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Former NHLers dead: Doing the teams off the top of my head, might be missing a couple.
Pavol Demitra: Former Cancuk, Sens, Blues Josef Vasicek: Former Hurricane, Islander Karel Rachunek: Former Devil, Sens, Rangers Ruslan Salei: Former Duck, Wings Karlis Skrastins: Former Stars, Preds, Avs, Panthers Alexander Vasyunov: former Devil Coach Brad McCrimmon: played for Wings, Flyers, Coyotes, Whalers, Flames, Bruins Assistant Coach: Alexander Karpotsev: Former Leaf, Ranger, Blackhawk, Panthers Assistant Coach: Igor Korolev: former Leaf, Jets, Blues |
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#232 |
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![]() All bar one of the team gone... |
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#234 |
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Has to be a bit surreal or crazy for the only survivor knowing that either his spot on the plane was the only safe spot or had he done anything differently (ex. picked a different seat, swapped spots with someone else, etc) he wouldn't have been as lucky to survive.
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#235 |
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as morbid as it sounds given his current condition, future quality of life, survivors guilt and so forth, I doubt he's going to see himself as very lucky
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Yeah, 80% burns or so as well as immense mental scarring and maybe even some self-doubt/blame, depression and anger all related to him being spared and the others dying.
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#237 |
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This is one messed up summer. EVEN MORESO for me as I was reading the article on the NHL's plan if something like this happened only a day or two ago.
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#238 |
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Yesterday was a sad, sad day for the hockey world. Rest in peace to all who were in the crash.
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#239 |
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even though Karpotsev died, this is still the funniest rant I've ever heard about a player
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Instead of just canceling the game outright, Dynamo Minsk held a "hockey funeral" for the victims of Lokomotiv. Not one fan returned their ticket. Here's the video.
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