HC Lokomotiv Yaroslavl - 5 years later
The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster occurred at 4:05 P.M. Moscow Time on Wednesday, 7 September 2011, when Yak-Service Flight 9633, a Yak-Service Yakovlev Yak-42, carrying the players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl. The aircraft ran off the runway before lifting off, struck a tower mast, caught fire and crashed 2 km (1.2 mi) from Tunoshna Airport at the Volga River bank. Of the 45 on board, 43 died at the crash site.
opting to play in the Russian Major League (VHL) for one season before returning to the KHL. Former coach Petr Vorobiev returned to the team as its head coach for the VHL season. The accident was the second plane crash in Russia involving a hockey team; in 1950, the entire VVS Moscow team were killed in an air disaster near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg).
2012–13 season
On 9 April 2012, Tom Rowe, formerly an assistant coach with the Carolina Hurricanes, signed on as the team's new head coach. For the 2012–13 KHL season, Lokomotiv added former National Hockey League players Viktor Kozlov, Niklas Hagman, Staffan Kronwall, Curtis Sanford, Sami Lepistö and Vitaly Vishnevskiy. Vishnevskiy previously played for the club from 2008 to 2010. Active Florida Panthers player Dmitri Kulikov signed on to play with Lokomotiv during the NHL lockout.
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, Yuri Bakhvalov, Aleksandr Belyaev, Alexander Karpovtsev, Igor Korolev, Assistant Coach, Nikolai Krivonosov, Yevgeni Kunnov, Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Brad McCrimmon, Vladimir Piskunov, Yevgeni Sidorov, Andrei Zimin
Виталий Аникеенко, Михаил Баландин, Роберт Дитрих, Марат Калимулин, Карел Рахунек, Руслан Салей, Карлис Скрастиньш, Павел Траханов, Юрий Урычев, Максим Шувалов, Александр Галимов, Александр Васюнов, Йозеф Вашичек , Павол Демитра, Александр Калянин, Андрей Кирюхин, Никита Клюкин, Ян Марек, Сергей Остапчук, Павел Снурницын, Даниил Собченко, Иван Ткаченко, Геннадий Чурилов, Артём Ярчук, Брэд Маккриммон, Александр Карповцев, Игорь Королёв, Николай Кривоносов, Андрей Зимин, Юрий Бахвалов, Александр Беляев, Евгений Кунов, Вячеслав Кузнецов, Владимир Пискунов, Евгений Сидоров