

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of the entire situation was the fact that Tertyshny and his wife, Polina, were expecting their first child at the time of the accident. Instead, clubs will letter their nameplates in the Roman alphabet, so that the players' names will be intelligible to viewers outside the former Soviet Union. One cosmetic change to look for in the KHL this season: players will no longer have the names on the back of their jerseys in the Cyrillic alphabet. Two days later, the Phoenix Coyotes will take on Latvian KHL club Dinamo Riga at Arena Riga. NHL fans will get a look at SKA when the Carolina Hurricanes travel to the Ice Palace St.
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The team, which already featured the likes of longtime NHL star Sergei Zubov, Alexei Yashin, Andrei Zyuzin, Sergei Brylin, Petr Cajanek, Mattias Weinhandl and Tony Martensson opened up their wallets to bring in NHL free agents Evgeny Nabokov and Maxim Afinogenov. Formerly an independent league (in somewhat similar fashion to Sweden's minor league Allsvenskan), the league will become a farm system affiliated with KHL clubs.ĭuring the off-season, the biggest spending KHL club was SKA St. Despite its name, the circuit is the top minor league in Russia.

The club will instead play in the reorganized Vysshaya League, which will now be known as the Russian Major League. In the meantime, longtime Russian Super League and KHL team, Lada Togliati, had to drop out of the KHL for financial reasons.

One expansion club has been added to the 23-team KHL this season: HC Yugra, which is based in Khanty-Mansiysk. The long-term plan is to construct a new arena in Balashikha in time for the 2012-13 season. UHC Dynamo will play the majority of its home games at Moscow's Megasport Arena.
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The latter club, whose full name is United Hockey Club Dynamo, was formed out of the off-season merger between HC MVD (a playoff finalist last season) and former league powerhouse Dynamo Moscow. in TatNeft Arena in Kazan.ĭefending Gagarin Cup champion Ak Bars Kazan will take on UHC Dynamo. The opening puck of the 2010-11 Kontinental Hockey League regular season will drop on Wednesday, Sept. The young player was rushed to Kelowna General Hospital, but it was already too late. Bleeding uncontrollably, an unconscious Tertyshny was brought back onboard as the boat returned to shore and an emergency crew arrived three minutes later. His friends watched in horror and anguish as the 22-year-old was run over by the power boat's propeller, which slashed his neck and jugular vein. At about 7:25 pm, the boat hit a steep wave and Tertyshny, kneeling on a seat on the bow, was thrown overboard. With Belanger piloting the rental boat, the other passengers were seated aboard the 17-foot vessel.

Tertyshny and Flyers minor league prospects Chernov and Belanger were taking a break from a summer power skating camp in Kelowna. Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Dmitri Tertyshny, who had recently completed a promising NHL rookie season, went out for a day of boating in the Okanagan Valley near Kelowna, British Columbia, with fellow Russian defenseman, Mikhail Chernov, forward Francis Belanger and a local acquaintance of Belanger's. The afternoon and early evening hours of Jstarted out pleasantly enough along Lake Okanagan.
