The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Jaromir Jagr has gone to Siberia, for a wagonload of petrodollars. Jagr, a Czech, was the captain and leading scorer last season of the New York Rangers, Manhattan’s most exalted hockey team. Now he wears No. 68 for the team Avangard Omsk, a gift from life for Laurie Carr, a . . .
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
from Tom Jones of the St. Petersburg Times via the Santa Barbara News-Press, As a hockey fan, how odd is it to watch New Jersey and not see Devils goalie Martin Brodeur? How weird is it to see the Rangers without Jaromir Jagr? Brodeur is out at least three months with an elbow injury. Jagr has taken his game to Russia. They rank as two of the most significant NHL players over the past 10 or so years....
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Blogdome + @ + deadspin.com = memories that last a lifetime. • All this and a stick of gum': Great moments in hockey card history. That was really forward thinking to take Jaromir Jagr's card...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
This was the 2005 training camp, the one immediately following the lockout and cancelled 2004-05 NHL season. The Rangers, you remember, had loaded up on veterans from the Czech Republic including Jaromir Jagr, Martin Rucinsky, Martin Straka, Michal...
New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
The puck isn't moving from the back end and it's not being chipped in on the front end. The Rangers all of a sudden seem to want to play meat-and-potatoes hockey only some of the time, and guess what, there's no Jaromir Jagr to blame. Last night...
RotoRob (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
Brandon Dubinksy, a guy Jaromir Jagr once bitched and moaned about having as a linemate, is quickly making people forget that the Rangers had some guy wearing 68 last season. Will he keep it up? I’ll say it right here: Dubinsky will not win the Art Ross trophy. Will he be a good second-line scorer [...]
The Peerless Prognosticator (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
As noted in Beyond the Blueshirts , that is how Jaromir Jagr described the tragic events that unfolded on Monday that ended in the death of 19-year old Rangers' prospect and Avongard Omsk right wing Alexei Cherepanov. There will be the usual calls for an investigation into such an untimely and unforeseen occurrence. There will be the usual bureaucratic language and behavior that attaches to these kinds...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
NEW YORK (AP) Alexei Cherepanov, a 19-year-old first-round NHL draft pick of the New York Rangers, died during a Continental Hockey League game in Russia on Monday. Former Rangers captain Jaromir Jagr played a shift with Cherepanov and was talking to his young Avangard Omsk teammate on the bench shortly after they left the ice, when Cherepanov suddenly collapsed, said a Rangers spokesman who talked...
PoliGazette (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
NHL prospect Alexei Cherepanov died during a game in Russia Monday night. He was only 19-years old. Cherepanov suffered a sudden heart attack while sitting on the bench during his team’s game. Former Rangers captain Jaromir Jagr was talking to Cherepanov when the latter suddenly collapsed. Medical officials hurried over to Cherepanov and tried to get his [...]
Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
For the past few seasons, the Rangers had a special player in Jaromir Jagr but lacked an effective physical presence to screen goaltenders, occupy defensemen and control the patch of ice in front of the net on the power play.
CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Alexei Cherepanov, a 19-year-old first-round draft pick of the New York Rangers, died Monday during a Continental Hockey League game in Russia. Former Rangers captain Jaromir Jagr played a shift with Cherepanov and was talking to his young Avangard Omsk teammate on the bench shortly after they left the ice, when Cherepanov suddenly collapsed, said a Rangers spokesman who talked to Jagr.
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Alexei Cherepanov, a 19-year-old first-round draft pick of the New York Rangers, died Monday during a Continental Hockey League game in Russia. Former Rangers captain Jaromir Jagr played a shift with Cherepanov and was talking to his young Avangard Omsk teammate on the bench shortly after they left the ice, when Cherepanov suddenly collapsed, said a Rangers spokesman who talked to Jagr.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Alexei Cherepanov, a 19-year-old first-round draft pick of the New York Rangers, died Monday during a Continental Hockey League game in Russia. Former Rangers captain Jaromir Jagr played a shift with Cherepanov and was talking to his young Avangard Omsk...
Deadspin (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
The details are starting to come in about the death of New York Rangers hockey prospect, 19-year-old Alexei Cherepanov. The initial reports had him suffering a cardiac arrest while sitting on the...
Tynan's Anger (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Sad, sad news comes from the Russian Superleagues today. Alexei Cherepanov, ranked by Hockey's Future as the top prospect of the New York Rangers, collapsed on the ice and died from apparent cardiac arrest. He was just 19 years old. Jaromir Jagr, who was on Cherepanov's Omsk team, collided with him in a line change, and then saw him collapse. The two had grown close over their bond with the
