Kārlis Skrastiņš, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Latvian hockey player
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Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia
About Kārlis Skrastiņš
- Karlis Skrastinš (July 9, 1974 – September 7, 2011) was a Latvian professional ice hockey player.
- Skrastinš was drafted by the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League in 1998 as a defenceman and spent twelve years in the league playing for the Predators, the Colorado Avalanche, the Florida Panthers, and the Dallas Stars. For the 2011-2012 season, Skrastinš left the NHL and signed a contract to play in Russia for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
- However, he never got to play a game for Lokomotiv as he was killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash that killed almost the entire team on September 7, 2011.
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