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unusual facts about Maxim Zyuzyakin


Jorma Valtonen

All players from the main roster, four players from the youth team and eleven staff members perished in that crash, except for main roster player Maxim Zyuzyakin, who was not aboard the plane.


Ruslan Salei

Salei died on September 7, 2011, when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team of the Kontinental Hockey League except for player Maxim Zyuzyakin and goaltending coach Jorma Valtonen, crashed near Yaroslavl on its way to Minsk, Belarus, to start the 2011–12 KHL season.


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