HOCKEY PLAYER

Ruslan Salei

1974 - 2011

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Ruslan Albertovich Salei (Belarusian: Руслан Альбертавіч Салей; Russian: Руслан Альбертович Салей; November 2, 1974 – September 7, 2011) was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player. Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, the latter of which selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft. Salei died on September 7, 2011, in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruslan Salei has received more than 205,646 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Ruslan Salei is the 161st most popular hockey player (down from 120th in 2019), the 230th most popular biography from Belarus (down from 200th in 2019) and the most popular Belarusian Hockey Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 210k

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  • 36.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HOCKEY PLAYERS

Among hockey players, Ruslan Salei ranks 161 out of 676. Before him are Paul Kariya, Josef Vašíček, Tomas Sandström, Vladimir Malakhov, Bryan Trottier, and Olli Jokinen. After him are Roman Turek, Jere Lehtinen, Petr Nedvěd, Joe Thornton, Ville Peltonen, and Robert Lang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Ruslan Salei ranks 583. Before him are Tomomi Kahara, Susana Díaz, Peter Kušnirák, Markus Schopp, Ruslan Nigmatullin, and Andradina. After him are Carla Peterson, Fanis Katergiannakis, André Luiz Moreira, Gábor Babos, Kenichi Uemura, and Abdel-Zaher El-Saqqa. Among people deceased in 2011, Ruslan Salei ranks 509. Before him are Poly Styrene, Mike Doyle, Karel Rachůnek, Saif al-Arab Gaddafi, Josef Vašíček, and Phoebe Snow. After him are Mani Kaul, Walt Hazzard, Andy Rooney, Joseph Galibardy, Jan Marek, and Shahbaz Bhatti.

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In Belarus

Among people born in Belarus, Ruslan Salei ranks 230 out of 368. Before him are Evgeny Agrest (1966), Andrei Mikhnevich (1976), Vadim Devyatovskiy (1977), Sergei Gurenko (1972), Krystsina Tsimanouskaya (1996), and Pavel Latushko (1973). After him are Vasil Kiryienka (1981), Valery Levaneuski (1963), Alyaksandr Kulchy (1973), Ilya Smirin (1968), Roman Protasevich (1995), and Yulia Nestsiarenka (1979).

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Among HOCKEY PLAYERS In Belarus

Among hockey players born in Belarus, Ruslan Salei ranks 1. After him are Andrei Kostitsyn (1985), Sergei Kostitsyn (1987), and Andrei Stas (1988).

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