FeedOnce Again, A Night In The KHL
September 8, 2011 in International Hockey, Kontinental Hockey League Tags: KHL, Kontinental Hockey League, St. Petersburg SKA, Vityaz Chekhov
For whatever reason, I just don’t feel ready yet to move on from what just happened in Russia, and I think that now isn’t the time to post some slightly frivolous things I have ready to go. And so I’ve gone into my archives and dug up some photos my stepson Denis Brel in St. Petersburg, Russia sent me last year from when he was at a Kontinental Hockey League game involving hometown SKA (in blue) and their visitors for the evening, Vityaz Chekhov.
I think I can speak for most when I say we as North American hockey fans, and indeed hockey fans everywhere, are deeply saddened by the tragic events that have occurred, and I can only imagine what it must be like for someone like Denis, who lives there, who is a big KHL fan, and who follows the league closely.
So in honour of the fans in Russia, and for a glimpse into the KHL, here once again is a good old hockey game in St. Petersburg. (P.S. It ended in a shootout win for SKA).
September 8th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
A good piece Dennis, well timed.
A very sad day…
RIP…all of them.
September 8th, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Thank you, Marc. Yes, RIP.
September 8th, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Nice pictures and I see there are a ton of good seats available. I have to say though I’m not crazy about cheerleaders. Never have been. Although I will take them over Youppi anyday.
It’s still a shock. Those poor people.
September 8th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
There are some videos of the service they had in the KHL:
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Video-Dynamo-Minsk-8217-s-hockey-funeral-for-L?urn=nhl-wp12157
September 8th, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Thank you Dennis!
It’s hard blow across all Russia and the World. Many hockey players aren’t ready to leave on ice for game.
Now about 30 players of different commands KHL are ready to play to a command the Locomotive Yaroslavl.
Tretyak tries to make so that the first year other clubs paid for their game to help a command from Yaroslavl.
September 8th, 2011 at 10:24 pm
Last post: …”Tretyak tries to make so that the first year other clubs paid for their game to help a command from Yaroslavl”…
Preliminary time became known there has begun ceremony of farewell to the lost players, trainers and workers of “Locomotive”. It is planned that it will begin at 11:00 (Moscow time) on Saturday, on September, 10th, on “Arene-2000-Lokomotiv”.
September 9th, 2011 at 4:59 am
Darth, I’ve never been a fan of cheerleaders in hockey either. Football abd basketball, yes. Hockey, no. They have them in Carolina and Edmonton. Youppi brings me back to the great days of the Expos. Geez I miss the Expos.
September 9th, 2011 at 5:00 am
Thanks, Denis.
September 9th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Cheerleaders in hockey is wrong, but it’s always right to show pictures of beautiful women, especially in short skirts.
September 9th, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Chris, when I’m owner I’m bringing in the female Dancing With The Stars pros to do some hot numbers between periods.
September 9th, 2011 at 10:07 pm
It’d be better than the current stuff at the intermissions at the Bell Centre:
There’s the t-shirt cannon, the Pom sponsored “dance-off’, the “kiss cam”, and Youppi antics.
They do have a 5 minute game with really little kids. They’re like around 5 or so. It’s pretty funny to watch. That’d I’d keep.
September 10th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Dennis, here is a report from the English-language service of RT on the ceremony held on Saturday in Jaroslavl to honour the Lokomotiv players.
The first video on the page looks at how fans are reacting to the tragedy while the second one shows people, (including former Russian President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin) paying their respects in the arena where the fallen Lokomotiv players played their last game.
You can tell people are just heartbroken. I can’t imagine how I’d feel if we lost our Habs in such a way.
Our hearts go out to everyone who loved the Lokomotiv hockey players and staff lost in this accident.
http://rt.com/news/russians-hockey-last-respect-237/
September 10th, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Thanks for that Danno. I hope they rebuid quickly and win the Gagarin Cup very soon. And I agree, it’s totally unimaginable to think how we’d feel.
September 11th, 2011 at 6:23 am
Dennis, the KHL has now officially confirmed that Lokomotiv will not play this season but will return in 2012-13…
http://rt.com/sport/hockey/lokomotiv-khl-season-team-251/