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Minsk arena pays tribute to late Yaroslavl team
Published: 08 September, 2011, 23:07
Hockey fans lay flowers in front of the Minsk arena (RIA Novosti / Andrei Aleksandrov)
(7.4Mb) embed videoA heart-stirring requiem mass has taken place at the Minsk ice hockey arena, where this evening local side Dynamo were supposed to take on Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, the team which tragically died in Wednesday’s plane crash.
All tickets for the game had been sold long before the tragedy. Soon after the sad news spread worldwide, the game’s organizers decided to arrange a mass at the arena, honoring the legacy of the team.
Not a single ticket had been returned as the ceremony was held in the packed arena.Each spectator brought flowers. All the Belarusian leadership, including President Aleksandr Lukashenko, were present at the event.
Never was the arena that silent as 37 huge portraits of the players and staff were placed on the ice. A requiem mass was performed by an orchestra, while portraits of the departed Yaroslavl friends and icons appeared on the scoreboard.
Each picture was met with a storm of applause, after which the Dynamo players scored a puck each in their own net.
Similar ceremonies were held on Thursday evening in a dozen Russian and CIS cities.
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My sincere condolances to all the familys of the diseased and the survivors of the terrible planecrash, near Yaroslavl airport!
It is fantastic to see how all the people gathers to build a new team, and I wish i could have been present in Minsk with the mourners!
Yours Sincerely!
When I saw those ceremony highlights and how Dinamo Minsk did it, it did bring some tears in my eyes. Dinamo players symbolicly placed pucks in their own goal, and young Minsk players skating toward the Lokomotiv goal and placed flowers in front of the goal.
All that I am hoping now, is that the players who will replace those departed will not wear the numbers that these players wore; there are several numbers still available, and if I was to play for Lokomotiv I would not wear #38 of Pavol Demitra.
My condoleances to the families and friends who lost someone dear to them. Requiescat in pace