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One year ago today, the unthinkable happened. On Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 16:05 Moscow Time, a YAK-42 carrying the 37 players and staff of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv KHL hockey team struck a...

A former airline executive has been charged in connection with the plane crash that killed the entire Yaroslavl Lokomotiv hockey team last year and other news and notes from around the NHL.

Photo courtesy of Monroe County Sheriff's Sgt. Evan Calhoun. Hendrick Motorsports team owner, Rick Hendrick and his wife, Linda were among four people who escaped serious injury early Monday...

Another incomprehensible tragedy in hockey today, as an airplane carrying the KHL's Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (roster here) crashed in Russia after colliding with an airport antenna on takeoff, killing...

Making national headlines this evening is a plane crash directly into a house in Bell Township, Pennsylvania. The Beech Baron BE-58 twin-engine prop aircraft slammed into the home around 9:20 am this morning. The survivors of the crash canceled their tee time at a local golf course.

USA Today reports that the United States Figure Skating Association has commissioned a documentary on the 1961 world championship figure skating squad, who were killed in a plane crash en route to...

Christopher Nolan is the grandson of U.S. ice dancing coach Danny Ryan, who was killed in the 1961 plane crash that killed the entire United States world figure skating team. But Icenetwork has an...

Philip Hersh, who always has a lot to say about our beloved sport, has gone out on a limb (his words) and predicted that the United States will not win any singles skating medals at the Vancouver...