Verhaaltje:
Translated first-hand account portion of the match report from Sovsport:
http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/307777...The third period is ending. The game clock reads 17:35. Omsk is losing 4-5. The referee suddenly stops the game, and everyone skates over to Avangard's bench. There the visitors' forward Alexei Cherepanov is lying on the floor, with the rest of the players and coaches crowding around him. The Vityaz players skate over to the bench. Hockey has ended. The doctor brings smelling salt to Cherepanov's nose in an attempt to revive him. Useless. Nobody can understand anything, what happened. For three minutes the doctors work on Alexei. The young lad repeatedly regains consciousness then passes out again.
-Where is the ambulance?! - yells someone from Omsk's camp.
Someone runs to get the ambulance, but it's not there.
It is called. It will arrive only in 15 minutes...
Cherepanov is carried away on arms [difficult translation - that is, without a stretcher]. Jaromir Jagr removes his helmet and gloves, runs to the dressing room and from there, already without his skates, speeds off to the doctors office, where on a bed lies his comrade without breathing. The game has ended for the Czech.
-"He was sitting on the bench and suddenly started drifting." - there is no face [Russian expression] on Vityaz head coach Sergei Gomoyako. Now nobody is thinking about the post-game press conference. What horror...
-"Five times he would regain consciousness and pass out again, and then wasn't responsive anymore." - tell the cameramen who were near Omsk's bench.
The ambulance arrives five minutes after the end of the game. The batteries of the defibrillator turn out to be uncharged.
-"Bloody village!" - cries Omsk's team video director. "How long must we wait for them!?" [this was a road game for Avangard Omsk, played in the small town of Chekhov]
On the street Jagr is stranding by the life support ambulance still in his uniform.
-"He was sitting next to me and suddenly started drifting." through tears says Jagr.
What happened to him?
-"His heart stopped..."
Understanding that he can't help in any way, the great Czech walks over to the side, and lowering his head, leans against the wall of the arena.
The doctors place Cherepanov on a stretcher. Try to breathe life into the young guy. Do CPR. Useless. Blood starts steaming out of Alexei's nose. The ambulance is surrounded by about two hundred fans. Everyone is silent. Anton Kuryanov, who rushed out onto the street straight from the showers, can't hold back his tears. On his eyes four medical workers carry Alexei into the car. The door closes. The siren is turned on. The life support ambulance speeds off to a Chekhov hospital. The people who witnessed this scene will remain standing by the arena in a stupor for a long time...
-"Lyoshenka [diminutive for Alexei], what is this?!" wails someone from the management of the Siberians [nickname for Avangard, as Omsk is in Siberia] while leaning his head against the wall. This is how the evening in Chekhov ended. At 22:50 [presumably the deadline to submit this article for publishing] nobody could say if Alexei Cherepanov had regained consciousness at the hospital...