Kārlis Skrastiņš Ice hockey player

Kārlis Skrastiņš (July 9, 1974 – September 7, 2011) was a Latvian professional ice hockey player. Skrastins was a member of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and was on board the team plane which crashed on September 7, 2011. Skrastiņš played eleven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) before joining Lokomotiv in 2011.

Personal facts

Kārlis Skrastiņš
Birth dateJuly 09, 1974
Birth place
Riga , Soviet Union
Date of deathSeptember 07, 2011
Place of death
Russia , Yaroslavl
Height (meters)1.8542
Weight (Kilograms)95.256

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Ice hockey player

Career start1991
Career end2011
draft230th overall
draft team
Nashville Predators
draft year1998
former team
Colorado Avalanche
Dallas Stars
Florida Panthers
Nashville Predators
position
Defenceman
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Kārlis Skrastiņš on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://espn.go.com/nhl/player/_/id/861/karlis-skrastins