Ruslan Salei, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Belarusian ice hockey player
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Place of Birth: Minsk, Belarus
About Ruslan Salei
- Ruslan Albiertavic Saliej (Belarusian: ?????? ??????????? ?????; November 2, 1974 – September 7, 2011), better known as Ruslan Salei (Russian: ?????? ??????????? ?????), was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player.
- Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, the latter of which selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft. Salei died on September 7, 2011, in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash.
- A Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying almost the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), crashed near Yaroslavl, Russia, en route to Minsk, Belarus, to start the 2011–12 KHL season.
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