Start of KHL championship postponed indefinitely

Due to the tragic death of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team in a plane crash on September 7 , Chairman of the KHL Board Vyacheslav Fetisov, President of the KHL Alexander Medvedev and chairman of the Players Union Andrey Kovalenko agreed to postpone the matches of the League. Further information on the timing of the tournament will be announced soon, the league’s official website of reported.

According to Vladimir Shalayev, vice-president of the KHL, the games won’t resume at least until Monday, RIA Novosti reported.

Yesterday in the afternoon it was believed that the tournament would resume today and the games scheduled for Thursday would be played despite the tragedy.

The plane with the players and staff of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl crashed near the airport of Tunoshna on its flight to Minsk, where the team had to play a KHL regular game against th local Dynamo Minsk. The accident killed 43 of the 45 people aboard the Yak-42 plane.