Hockey Deaths In 2009

On Monday I learned Tony Bukovich passed away earlier this month. He played only a handful of NHL games with Detroit. At age 94 he was the oldest living Red Wing alumni.

Here's a list of deaths from the hockey community in 2009. Let me know if you can think of anymore:

Gabor Ocskay (Hungarian player), 33, heart attack
Igor Stelnov (Soviet hockey player), 46, undisclosed illness
Walt Poddubny, 49, heart attack
Jaroslav Pitner (Czech hockey coach), 83
Larry Regan, 78, Parkinson's Disease
Alf Pike, 91,
Kiril Vajarov (Bulgarian player), 21, stabbing
Kent Douglas, 73, cancer
Hank Bassen, 76, heart attack
Peter Zezel, 44, hemolytic anemia
Robert Muller (German player), 28, brain cancer
Snuffy Smith, 95
Lude Check, 91
Eddie Dorohoy, 80
Nathan Marsters (minor league player), 29, car accident
Reggie Fleming, 73
Ron Kennedy (coach), 56, brain cancer
Pete Horeck, 86, prostate cancer
Erkki Laine (Finnish player), 51, drowned
Teeder Kennedy, 83, heart failure
Al Purvis (Canadian Olympian 1952), 80
Igor Vyazmikin, 43
Fred Cusick (broadcaster), 90
Bill Chadwick (referee), 94
Del St. John (Austrian player), 78
Kathryn Waldo (Northeastern University), 33, Cystic Fibrosis
Hakan Wickberg (Swedish player), 66
Tony Bukovich, 94