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Video: Pierre McGuire looks at the long term effects of what the Russian plane crash could be

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People mourn in front of the portraits of victims during a memorial ceremony for those killed in the Russian ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslav plane crash at Arena-2000 the team’s stadium in Yaroslavl on September 10, 2011. The Russian city mourning the loss of its ice hockey team in the September 7 plane disaster payed its last respects in the team’s home arena. The accident, which killed 43, was the worst sporting disaster in the country’s recent memory, claiming the lives of several international players who played in the National Hockey League and previously won Olympic medals. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXANDER NEMENOV (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)

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The tragedy in Russia that saw all the members of KHL team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl perish in a plane crash and leaving just one survivor from the flight has been one of the hardest stories for hockey fans around the world to face up to. From all the former NHL players who died in the crash to all the Russian professionals who lost their lives in the tragedy, it’s been a story that’s affected everyone.

Pierre McGuire, who coached Lokomotiv head coach Brad McCrimmon while with the Hartford Whalers, talked with NBC Sports Talk’s Russ Thaler to discuss what the effects of that tragedy could be on the KHL and to the psyche of all players who make a living hopping planes to travel city to city.