Stint in Russia had a lasting effect on new Tampa Bay Lightning
assistant Wayne Fleming  Before coming to the Lightning, Wayne
Fleming was an assistant coach for five teams, including the
Flyers from 2002 to 2006.  Getty Images (2005)   Imagine
watching one of your players dying. New Lightning assistant
coach Wayne Fleming always will have that memory.  As coach of
Avangard Omsk in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League, Fleming saw
one of his most gifted players, forward Aleksei Cherepanov,
collapse into the arms of teammate Jaromir Jagr on the bench
near the end of an Oct. 13, 2008, game against Vityav Chekov.
Team doctors tried on the bench and in the dressing room to
revive Cherepanov, 19, who died that night at a local hospital
of an apparent heart attack.  The league announced Cherepanov,
the No. 17 overall pick of the 2007 draft by the Rangers, had
chronic myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart for which he
took a banned medication provided, the KHL said, by team
doctors. The league determined the doct