Simply the Best by Sergei Olekhnovich

This book commemorates a great Belarusian hockey player, Ruslan Salei, as well as the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl players, coaches and Yak-42 crew who perished in an air crash at the Tunoshna Airport. But its not a requiem book. It is about life. It tells the life story of the best player in history of Belarusian hockey, his rise to prominence with the National Team, his struggles on and off the ice in his pursuit of stardom in North America s National Hockey League, his courtship and eventual marriage to the love of his life, Bethann, the joy he found in fatherhood and so much more on and off the ice, in a good man s life that ended in far too soon.