Washington Capitals to honor DCA plane crash victims with helmet decal

Saturday marks 1 period to the time that 67 radical were killed aft a commercialized level collided with a chopper portion landing astatine the DCA airdrome successful Washington, D.C.

Among those were members of the figure skating community, coming backmost from a tourney successful Kansas.

During their location crippled against the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Washington Capitals volition grant the victims with a decal connected their helmets; Tampa Bay players, too, volition deterioration them.

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Emergency effect units hunt the clang tract of the American Airlines level connected the Potomac River aft the level crashed past nighttime connected attack to Reagan National Airport connected January 30, 2025, successful Arlington, Virginia. The formation from Wichita, Kansas, collided successful midair with a subject chopper portion approaching Ronald Reagan National Airport. According to reports, determination were nary survivors among the 67 radical connected committee some aircraft.   (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

The decals diagnostic a fig skate and a hockey skate with the day "1.29.25" encircled successful the signifier of a heart. 

Six members of the Skating Club of Boston were aboard Flight 5342, and U.S. Figure Skating said successful a connection that "several members of our skating community" were connected the plane.

A close-up presumption of the decal members of the Capitals and Lightning volition deterioration connected Saturday. (Washington Capitals)

Two erstwhile Olympians, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were besides among the victims of the crash, the Kremlin confirmed. 

There were 60 passengers and 4 unit members aboard the American Airlines formation and 3 soldiers aboard the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter.

The Caps are moving distant with the Eastern Conference, starring the mode with 82 points. 

Alex Ovechkin, #8 of the Washington Capitals, skates against the Utah Hockey Club connected November 18, 2024, astatine Delta Center successful Salt Lake City, Utah. (Jamie Sabau/NHLI via Getty Images)

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Not lone are they Stanley Cup contenders, but long-time squad skipper Alex Ovechkin is connected the quest to go the league's all-time starring scorer. Ovechkin is conscionable 13 goals distant from surpassing Wayne Gretzky, whose 891 goals are the astir ever.

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