|
Post by Snake_Eyez on Oct 13, 2008 15:25:21 GMT -5
I just read on Rotoworld about this and was stunned. Oct. 13 - 4:19 pm et Alexei Cherepanov collapsed around the bench area, in the third period, of Monday's KHL contest and passed away shortly after. The arena medical staff tried to revive the 19-year-old prospect, but were unable to get his heart beating again. Sources in Russia have informed TSN that the ambulance, that is at-the-ready for all games, had already gone to the hospital earlier and it had to be called back. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Cherepanov's family and friends. www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=252547&lid=headline&lpos=secStory_nhl
|
|
robicus19
Second Liner
Dun Dun Dun.... Another One Bites The Dust... Dun Dun Dun
Posts: 248
|
Post by robicus19 on Oct 13, 2008 15:48:43 GMT -5
That's nuts. I cant imagine what his family is going through. My thoughts are with them.
|
|
Blueman
1st Liner
Just One Cup...
Posts: 585
|
Post by Blueman on Oct 13, 2008 19:03:06 GMT -5
I just saw this too. wow, words just don't express how stunning this is. Worst thing imaginable for a family. My thoughts are with them as well.
|
|
|
Post by Dethrij on Oct 13, 2008 20:56:19 GMT -5
How sad. and it was after a collision with his own teammate, Jagr, during a line change.
|
|
|
Post by The Hockey Hitman on Oct 14, 2008 16:00:23 GMT -5
the latest, from TSN:
MOSCOW - Russian hockey player Alexei Cherepanov, who collapsed and died during a game, had heart problems and probably should not have been allowed to play, a regional investigator suggested Tuesday.
Yulia Zhukova said Cherepanov, who died Monday playing for Avangard Omsk in a Continental Hockey League game outside of Moscow, apparently had chronic ischemia - a medical condition that occurs when the heart or other organs do not get enough blood.
"Checks will be conducted to clarify, in particular, why the sportsman with such an illness went onto the ice," Zhukova said.
Cherepanov's agent, however, said NHL tests showed him to be healthy.
A lawmaker suggested that the 19-year-old first-round draft pick for the New York Rangers may have died due to negligence on the part of paramedics.
Pavel Krasheninnikov, who sits on the Russian Hockey Federation's supervisory council and is a member of the State Duma, said there was no ambulance on duty at the Moscow region arena where Cherepanov was playing.
He also asserted emergency workers took too long to respond and didn't have a defibrillator - a medical machine that shocks the heart. It was unclear how much time it took paramedics to respond.
"There are elements of negligence here," Krasheninnikov said.
Vladimir Shalayev, the managing director for the newly formed Russian league, said a preliminary autopsy showed Cherepanov had a "hypertrophied heart."
"It has nothing to do with yesterday's game, there were absolutely no injuries," Shalayev said in televised comments. "He was not injured during this game."
Cherepanov's agent, Jay Grossman, said the player had tests at the NHL combine before last year's draft that didn't reveal any heart problems. He has been told that players in the Russian league receive regular heart and blood tests, similar to those given in the NHL.
The incident caught the attention of a high-level government meeting, chaired by President Dmitry Medvedev, to discuss how to revitalize Russia's deep sporting traditions.
"A person should not be allowed to take part in competition if he has ischemic heart disease," Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said. "This means that in fact there is no preliminary health control and monitoring. And this system should be very well-defined."
Former Rangers captain Jaromir Jagr played a shift with Cherepanov and was talking to him on the bench shortly after they left the ice. Cherepanov then suddenly collapsed, according to a Rangers spokesman who talked to Jagr.
There was no collision that preceded the collapse, the spokesman said.
Amateur video taken at the match showed players and coaches gathered around the Avangard bench and then carrying a player who appeared to be Cherepanov.
Cherepanov scored the first goal Monday and had eight goals in 15 games this season, his third with Avangard Omsk.
"It was really kind of a surreal thing for the players," Grossman told The Associated Press. "He was skating in on a 2-on-1 with Jaromir and then they came back to the bench. Jaromir was talking to him and he told him he has to score on that play. The next thing you know, he collapsed.
"(Jagr) went with him into the dressing room area and they revived him for some time and then he didn't make it," he said.
Cherepanov was the 17th pick by the Rangers in the 2007 NHL draft. The talented forward dropped to a lower pick than expected because of concerns about the potential difficulty in getting him to leave Russia.
AP Sports Writer Ira Podell in New York contributed to this report.
|
|
|
Post by The Hockey Hitman on Oct 14, 2008 16:34:02 GMT -5
And this video here, kind of chilling:
|
|
|
Post by kingsfan24 on Oct 14, 2008 22:27:18 GMT -5
Kinda hits home for me being 19 also that something like this could happen to someone my age. Very very sad.
|
|