Alexei Cherepanov passes away

[LkptTiger 1]

The Rangers are asking for a 2nd rd compensitory pick because the CBA mandates that if a team can't sign their first rd pick. As a Ranger fan I hope the Rangers get the pick. It wasn't their fault they couldn't sign him. Plus he died on the KHL's watch. Not on the Rangers.

In addition, this may begin to happend more oftern if first rd picks start going to russia.

Unbe-fucking-lievable.

[M.W. 0]

The Rangers are asking for a 2nd rd compensitory pick because the CBA mandates that if a team can't sign their first rd pick. As a Ranger fan I hope the Rangers get the pick. It wasn't their fault they couldn't sign him. Plus he died on the KHL's watch. Not on the Rangers.

In addition, this may begin to happend more oftern if first rd picks start going to russia.

The draft is in June. Its classless to go about it this soon.

From what I understand, it had to be done at a GM's meeting, and due to the way those meetings work, it had to be brought up now to be able to get it on the agenda for the meeting at which they needed it addressed.

[interpathway 9]

My thoughts exactly, it may sound silly but it doesn't bode well with me that they're cutting ties with the player now he's dead and rejecting his NHL rights in exchange for someone elses. Maybe I'm being over sensitive but thats just my opinion.

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[CapsFan 5]

Luckily for these guys, Russia started testing their players...

MOSCOW (AP)—Heart defects have been found in five players in the Russian ice hockey league since the death of rising star Alexei Cherepanov, an official said Wednesday.

Russia’s Continental Hockey League ordered the tests after the 19-year-old Cherepanov collapsed and died last month from a heart condition while playing for his club Avangard.

Cherepanov was a New York Rangers draft pick.

Russian league spokesman Marat Safin said 49 players have undergone testing with their clubs, and five turned out to have problems.

He said that figure could rise because 18 players are still to be checked. Results from the total sample of 67 players are expected Friday.

Safin said there was no reason to suspect any form of drug abuse or doping among the players.

[Neal 41]

10% of a group of primarily young men in very good physical condition had heart defects? that seems unusually high, but I'm not Doogie Hawser MD.

[Chadd 916]

My thoughts exactly, it may sound silly but it doesn't bode well with me that they're cutting ties with the player now he's dead and rejecting his NHL rights in exchange for someone elses. Maybe I'm being over sensitive but thats just my opinion.

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There were no ties with Cherapanov to cut. He was never under contract and never played for the Rangers. They aren't rejecting any rights, the player is dead therefore they cannot sign him. If the team is eligible for a compensatory pick, they have to apply for it. The NHL is a business and Ranger management has to do what is in the best interest of their team.

[habsfan87 0]

that 5 out of 49 figure is definitely startling, what happens to the players that are defective? Are NHL players tested for this to this degree?

[henkka 0]

Can you please post a link to the article you are speaking about?

there was an intresting artice on doping and other drugs in KHL on an finnish ice-hockey publication, where finnish players tell their comments and experiences about russian culture. it seems that its 'a bit' more liberal there :)

it was in a ice-hockey newspaper...

[RadioGaGa 162]

Prelim reports released:

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=255848&lid...=headlines_main

[armada 0]

I don't think anyone was expecting to hear anything different from the reports. KHL will do everything to sweep this under the rug and move on.

[henkka 0]

Coroner has confirmed that he had been doped in last month, also he wasnt revived correctly and his cronic heart disease should have come up earlier and denied his procareer.

http://sport.segodnya.ua/hockey/812141.html

[JGraz15 53]

Here is an English article.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/29/...panov-Probe.php

Edit: Here is 'blood doping'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_doping

[MLSman 22]

This is a sad situation, and the blood doping both compounds and complicates the situation.

1. Myocarditis is viral in nature, and possibly could have been caused by the onset of an RBC transfusion.

2. Family and/or team doctors may have known he was suffering from myocarditis, and did not report this. I would be interested to know if they found traces of any antibiotics in his system. Another treatment of myocarditis when antibiotics are unsuccessful is a blood transfusion, and could have possibly lead to their doping findings.

[Fletch 219]

Now they're just saying he was doping, not blood doping.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=261215&amp...os=topStory_nhl

[sitzlejd 0]

Mixed feelings today...

On the one hand, I'm almost relieved to hear about the doping because it's such a scary thought that anybody can just go down at any age and for no reason (selfish but true).

On the other hand, it's even more tragic to know that this could probably have been prevented.

[RadioGaGa 162]

Mixed feelings today...

On the one hand, I'm almost relieved to hear about the doping because it's such a scary thought that anybody can just go down at any age and for no reason (selfish but true).

On the other hand, it's even more tragic to know that this could probably have been prevented.

Doping or not....with that heart condition existing, he should not have been playing. More than Russian Hockey is going to be called into question here...if a doctor knew about it and didn't say anything because he was an elite athlete that will eventually come out...if his family knew and said nothing, that will come out.

If I recall correctly his tests from the NHL Combine did not turn up anything out of the ordinary...so maybe the doping (blood or otherwise) created/heightened the condition after that.

It's tragic either way...because of (or in spite of) whatever today's reports have revealed.

[hellaavangard 33]

I'm very curious to see what drugs they say were in his system, especially because they said the initial toxicology report said he was clean.

[KingPest19 0]

I'm very curious to see what drugs they say were in his system, especially because they said the initial toxicology report said he was clean.

According to the KHL it was Cordiaminum (Nikethamide)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikethamide

Nikethamide is a stimulant which mainly affects the respiratory cycle. It was formerly used under the brand name "Coramine" in the mid-1900s as a medical countermeasure towards tranquilizer overdoses, before the advent of endotracheal intubation & positive-pressure lung expansion. It was used for this purpose by suspected serial killer Dr John Bodkin Adams when treating patient Gertrude Hullett, who he was suspected of murdering[1].

In alternate terminology, it is known as nicotinic acid diethylamide, which meaningfully emphasizes its laboratory origins, as well as the phonemes of its common name.

In sports, nikethamide is listed by the World Anti-Doping Agency as a banned substance. Cyclist Jaime Huelamo was caught at the 1972 Summer Olympics using it. When it was discovered that American sprinter and world champion Torri Edwards had used nikethamide, she was banned for two years. In 2005, however, WADA downgraded nikethamide so that one would only receive a maximum one-year ban.

[RadioGaGa 162]

Fallout continues:

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=261479&lid...=headlines_main

[RadioGaGa 162]

Docs cleared of wrong doing:

http://sports.sympatico.msn.ca/Home/Conten...&date=False

[RadioGaGa 162]

bump for new info:

UPDATE: http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=287298