HOCKEY PLAYER

Ruslan Salei

1974 - 2011

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Ruslan Albertovich Salei (Belarusian: Руслан Альбертавіч Салей; Russian: Руслан Альбертович Салей; November 2, 1974 – September 7, 2011) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Ruslan Salei is the 194th most popular hockey player (down from 167th in 2024), the 242nd most popular biography from Belarus (down from 230th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Hockey Player.

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS

Among hockey players, Ruslan Salei ranks 192 out of 676. Before him are Harry Sinden, František Kaberle, Martin Straka, and Roman Turek. After him are Nikolai Khabibulin, Vladimir Malakhov, Vyacheslav Kozlov, Glenn Anderson, Boris Alexandrov, Valeri Bure, Henrik Sedin, and Karel Rachůnek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Ruslan Salei ranks 659. Before him are Håkan Hellström, Lisa Sheridan, FannyAnn Eddy, Shwetha Menon, Christian Hoffmann, and Maurizio Margaglio. After him are Urmas Paet, Kim Director, Thomas Häberli, Erik Varden, María Vento-Kabchi, and Víctor. Among people deceased in 2011, Ruslan Salei ranks 508. Before him are Phoebe Snow, Josef Vašíček, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Gary Winick, Samuel Wanjiru, and Hana Andronikova. After him are Susana Chávez, Walt Hazzard, DJ Mehdi, Shahbaz Bhatti, Jimmy Adamson, and Karel Rachůnek.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Ruslan Salei ranks 242 out of 368. Before him are Oleg Novitsky (1971), Igor Lapshin (1963), Sergei Gurenko (1972), Ilya Smirin (1968), Krystsina Tsimanouskaya (1996), and Vadim Devyatovskiy (1977). After him are Gary Vaynerchuk (1975), Alyaksandr Khatskevich (1973), Viktor Khrenin (1971), Aliaksandra Herasimenia (1985), Veronika Tsepkalo (1976), and Nadine Koutcher (1983).

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS In Belarus

Among hockey players born in Belarus, Ruslan Salei ranks 1. After him are Konstantin Koltsov (1981), Andrei Kostitsyn (1985), Oleg Antonenko (1971), Sergei Kostitsyn (1987), Alexei Kalyuzhny (1977), Andrei Stas (1988), Sergei Ostapchuk (1990), Yegor Sharangovich (1998), and Dmitry Korobov (1989).

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