Daniil Sobchenko
| Daniil Sobchenko | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
13 April 1991 Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
| Died |
7 September 2011 (aged 20) Yaroslavl, Russia | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | ||
| Weight | 205 lb (93 kg; 14 st 9 lb) | ||
| Position | Centre | ||
| Shot | Left | ||
| Played for | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (KHL) | ||
| NHL draft |
166th overall, 2011 San Jose Sharks | ||
| Playing career | 2009–2011 | ||
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Representing  Russia
| ||
| Ice hockey | ||
| World Junior Championships | ||
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2011 United States | |
Danylo Yevhenovych "Daniil" Sobchenko (Ukrainian: Данило Євге́нович Собченко; 13 April 1991 – 7 September 2011) was a Ukrainian-born Russian professional ice hockey player. A native of Kyiv, he played his entire professional career with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Internationally, Sobchenko represented Russia at both the IIHF U18 and World Junior Championships, capturing a gold medal with the Russian under-20 team in 2011. That same year, he was selected 166th overall by the San Jose Sharks in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. Sobchenko tragically lost his life alongside his Lokomotiv teammates in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which occurred on the opening day of the 2011–12 season.
Death
On September 7, 2011, Sobchenko tragically perished in an aviation disaster when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft crashed near Tunoshna Airport, just outside Yaroslavl, Russia. The ill-fated flight was transporting nearly the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team to Minsk, where they were scheduled to play their opening game of the 2011–12 Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) season. In addition to the team's main roster, the plane also carried the club's coaching staff and several young prospects from Lokomotiv's junior team. Following the crash, Lokomotiv officials confirmed the heartbreaking news that the entire first-team squad and four junior players were among those on board.[1][2][3] In the days that followed, the bodies of Sobchenko and his fellow Ukrainian teammate Vitali Anikeyenko were repatriated to Ukraine.[4] Their joint funeral, attended by family members, friends, teammates, and supporters, was held on September 10, 2011, at the Sovskoe Cemetery in Kyiv.[5]
Career statistics
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 2009–10 | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl | KHL | 35 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 2010–11 | Lokomotiv Yaroslavl | KHL | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 18 | ||
| KHL totals | 51 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 | ||||
See also
References
- ^ "First pictures from the crash of Yak-42 near Yaroslavl". Lifenews.ru. 2011-09-07. Retrieved 2011-09-07.
- ^ "The list of Lokomotiv players who died". Lifenews.ru. 2011-09-07. Retrieved 2011-09-07.
- ^ "Pavol Demitra among 43 killed in Russian plane crash". Toronto: theglobeandmail.com. 2011-09-07. Archived from the original on 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2011-09-07.
- ^ "Archived copy". Press service of the Russian Hockey Federation Ukraine. 2011-09-09. Archived from the original on 8 December 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-09.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "В Киеве хоронили погибших хоккеистов: проститься пришли 500 человек | Фотогалерея СЕГОДНЯ". Archived from the original on 2011-12-08. Retrieved 2011-09-11.
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or The Internet Hockey Database