Marian Hossa practices for first time

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    Forward Marian Hossa appeared in Chicago Blackhawks training camp for the first time Wednesday but with a heavy heart. Hossa was excused from the first few days of practice while attending a memorial and funeral for good friend and former NHL player Pavol Demitra.

    Demitra and 42 others on the KHL's Lokomotiv Yaroslav hockey team died in a plane crash in Russia on Sept. 7. Two days after the crash, Hossa's wife gave birth to their first child, a daughter.

    "It was a tough week, the tragic accident that happened," Hossa said after his first practice Wednesday. "It was terrible. I lost a couple of people that I knew very well and one very close one. And after a couple of days my daughter was born so from death to birth, it was upside down."

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