Ruslan Salei
Ice Hockey, Ice hockey player
1974 – 2011
Who was Ruslan Salei?
Ruslan Albertovich "Rusty" Salei was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player. Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, who selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft.
Salei died on September 7, 2011, when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team of the Kontinental Hockey League except for player Maxim Zyuzyakin and goaltending coach Jorma Valtonen, crashed near Yaroslavl on its way to Minsk, Belarus, to start the 2011–12 KHL season.
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- Born
- Nov 2, 1974
Minsk - Also known as
- Rusty
- Spouses
- Bethann Salei
( - 2011/09/07)
- Bethann Salei
- Nationality
- Belarus
- Profession
- Lived in
- Minsk
- Died
- Sep 7, 2011
Yaroslavl
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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