Later today on NHL.com, my weekly Across the Pond column will look at the life and career of former Detroit Red Wings farmhand Stefan Liv, who perished in yesterday’s tragic plane crash in Yaroslavl, Russia. Liv, 30, rose from exceptionally humble and difficult origins. Born in Poland to an unwed teenage mother in Poland, he was left as a baby to the care of an orphanage in Gdansk

Excerpt from: Bill Meltzer