World of hockey in shock

Candles and flowers are placed around a Slovak national hockey jersey at the Ice Hockey Stadium in Trencin on Wednesday. A passenger plane carrying a Russian ice hockey team to a season-opening match crashed after takeoff from a provincial airport on Wednesday, leaving 43 people dead. Slovakia's Pavol Demitra, who played for Russian team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, was among the victims. Demitra used to play for Trencin. Radovan Stoklasa / Reuters