The death of a hockey player

On October 13, at 22.55 minutes, the heart of one of the most talented young hockey players in Russia Alexei Cherepanov stopped in the Czech city hospital. He lost consciousness on the bench during the match in which his Omsk Vanguard fought with the Chekhov Vityaz. The New Times sorted out the causes and consequences of this tragic story

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In the morning on Tuesday, you understand that there was none of this fifteen hours ago. The guy was alive. And at that moment you were still hesitated - to go to Chekhov or not. Well, you know, the “Knight” after all, the Chekhov’s brawls Vero with Simon against Svitov-and a bunch of other already unnecessary, worthless, idiotic intrigues.

Thank God I did not go. You can’t see this with your own eyes. And so enough. He was at Dynamo - SKA, when all this was recognized. At first - Aisiku. Then - phone calls. And complete misunderstanding. Wilderness. When the heart of the person with whom you talked cannot be made-somewhere there, in the distance, what do you feel here? Is it easy? And those who were there were there, what could they do? Charge batteries in equipment for resuscitation?

Then - hope. Calling with a person who owned information from the family of one of Omsk hockey players. He said: “Thank God, he came to his senses. There is no threat. Only weak yet. ” It was 23.04. At that time, for 9 minutes, as the death of Alexei was recorded. News go for a long time, as you see.

At 23.15, a terrible, killing information will already appear. And the same person who said in relief: “Thank God he came to his senses,” whispers: “He is no longer there.”

At night, we will call us with Sasha Kostyakov, a video operator of the Vanguard. He talked closely with Cherepanov.

I could not speak, listened to him. What words are you say on the phone? What voice? And Sanya, a strong 40-year-old man, sobbed, tore this tube. He told how they sat before the game together. Took pictures. And about how Cherepanov told him his dream also told him.

So, Cherepanov had a dream before the match that the game was going on, and he alone is sitting in the locker room. And he cannot understand why.

Singing batteries

Understand why - we cannot even now. Have you already heard about an ambulance? No? The Chekhovsky Sports Palace did not have her when Alexei had a heart. Well, that is, I stood for myself, I was waiting for a maximum of broken nose from hockey, and then, five minutes before the end of the game, I received a different challenge and left for it. There are ten ambulances in Chekhov. And four worked. The rest were repaired.

A couple of minutes after the departure of the ambulance, Cherepanov lost consciousness on the bench of the spare "Vanguard". They had already begun to call an ambulance from the palace, the call was handed over to the Center for Disaster Medicine, and as a result, about 20 minutes, the avant -garde doctor Sergey Belkin, a former resuscitator, and the Vityaza doctor Leonid Zinchenko, provided help to the hockey player. Massage of the chest, artificial respiration.

The doctors who arrived and are happy to do the stimulation of the heart, but the defibrillator batteries turned out to be discharged, and the benefits in this case were no more from the apparatus than from a mobile phone. Cherepanov was taken to intensive care. The team went to church. There she was stunned by news.

The fourth coach

Then there will be these disputes - who is to blame. The Ministry of Health of the Moscow Region will say that an absolutely sick person went to the ice. And he will tell you about the fact that the heart is three times the laid size, and the spleen is five. Then all this will be refuted, and the General Manager of the Vanguard Anatoly Bardin promises to put such a minister.

A team blackened from grief will fly to Omsk. The correspondent of the publication Life.ru will very nicely ask a few questions in the back of Czech Yaromir Yagr. He will turn out only once - and on this video will end.

This publication will write: “Recall that experts believe that it was the blow of Yaromir that became fatal for the rising star of Russian hockey.” When the Yagr collided with him, where the video protests is incomprehensible. The main thing is written powerfully, right?

Yaromir then with difficulty picked up the words for the Czech agency MF DNES: “The Russian journalist came up with that Lesha died of a clash with me. Apparently, I just really wanted to put my name in the headline. It’s very difficult for me to talk about this loss, this is terrible. Shock condition. We were very close. "

19-year-old Cherepanov with a 36-year-old Yagr and really became friends in three months in Omsk. Lesha remained after training, and Yaromir was already engaged in the ice with him. Cherepanov called him "my fourth coach."

The Yagr and the whole team were at the coffin of Cherepanov. About fifty thousand people came to say goodbye to the young striker at Arenumsk. Omsk is trampled by this terrible news.

Start

In the summer of 2006, at the pre-season tournament in Novosibirsk, Leshe was only 17, and Valery Konstantinovich Belousov took and put the guy in the first link. And he immediately built a program from behind the gate. The Vanguard lost then, and Lesha, of course, told the robot these words: the main thing, they say, that the team won, and personal statistics are not so important. But he was happy. Smiling. I understood that now - in Big Hockey.

We once again talked with Lesha before his first match in the championship of the country. He was worried, of course. The veteran Vitaly Yachmenev then explained: "One or two of the match will play-and all the excitement will leave." And indeed. Belousov began to stably put Cherepanov in the composition. Poor Vaclav Novak, a legionnaire, was pushed to the bench, and the coach then said: “It’s more pleasant to look at Cherepanov’s game, right?”

Lesha scored. During the season, he pricked 21 goals and set a new record for the debutants. The former belonged to Pavel Bure. Then there was the second season. The Draw in the NHL, where the rights to Alexei secured the New York Rangers. Cherepanov remained in Omsk. Everyone was told to him: it is useful for you, get stronger here.

Ten days before his death, he set a team record for the duration of the digging series, scoring in six matches in a row.

Four days before his death, he opened a blog-there is one single record ending with the words: “See you after leaving. See you!"

For two days I received a dissection of the gums and to the question of the correspondents dismissed: "I will live."

A few hours before his death, he scored his last goal with the Chekhovsky “knight”. I didn’t even smile. He sighed only heavily.

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PS . During the investigation, it turned out that Alexei Cherepanov, by law, had no right to be in Chekhov that day: he was military service in the Omsk Railway Brigade. Several colonels and generals wrote reports about dismissal because of this, and one refused-it was Colonel Oleg Alborov, the commander of the Omsk unit of railway troops. From the further statements of Alborov it followed that there was an agreement of the Vanguard with the railway troops: hockey players are only listed in the units.

After that, the directive of the Ministry of Defense was received: employees on the call do not have the right to play for professional clubs. As a result, about twenty people from the second and first teams of Vanguard were sent to the unit.

This was affected not only by Omsk, but also by the main basketball army club of the country - CSKA. For the player of the Russian national team Andrei Vorontsevich, the service ends the next summer, twice a day he must be celebrated in part. True, at home, but he is forbidden to play. At first, this ban was respected, but then they spat in CSKA - and Andrei was released on a parquet in a match against Khimki, learning that the Khimki conscript Anton Ponrashov and flew abroad, and took part in this game. Vorontsevich was at that moment in the dismissal, and Ponkrashov on vacation.

Sports.ru - for The New Times