Team doctors are not to blame for the death of rising star Alexei Cherepanov, who collapsed during a Continental Hockey League game last year in Russia. Doctors with the Siberian team Avangard Omsk had no reason to suspect the 19-year-old Cherepanov suffered from a chronic ...

New York Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov took performance-enhancing drugs for several months before he died during a Russian league game in October, investigators said Monday. Investigators added that during his last year the 19-year-old player suffered from myocarditis, a condition where not enough blood gets to the heart, and should not have ...

Alexei Cherepanov, the New York Rangers draft pick who died during a Russian league ice hockey match in October, was taking banned drugs, according to the public prosecutor's office. The prosecutors' office, quoted by local media, said that analysis of his blood and urine samples showed no presence of alcohol or narcotics but indicated that the 19-year-old had been ...

Moscow regional prosecutors said an ice arena manager and a hockey club director were negligent in the death of rising Russian star Alexei Cherepanov. Prosecutors said in a statement posted on their Web site Tuesday that the manager of the Moscow region arena where Cherepanov was playing failed to ...