Alexander Karpovtsev was a Russian ice hockey player and later an assistant coach for Ak Bars Kazan and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League. In the National Hockey League, he played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Islanders, and Florida Panthers. He, Alexei Kovalev, Sergei Zubov and Sergei Nemchinov, were the first Russian players to have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup, winning it in 1994 with the Rangers. Karpovtsev was an assistant coach for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl when his team's charter plane crashed on September 7, 2011 and did not survive. 

April 7th, 1970 in Moscow  /  Died:   Sep 7th, 2011 - killed in Russian plane crash,along with 44 teammates and coaches