Karlis Skrastins
Latvian ice hockey player
Died when: 37 years 60 days (445 months)Star Sign: Cancer
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 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash that killed almost the entire team on September 7, 2011.
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