height_ft played_for death_date shoots weight_lb birth_place death_place draft_year career_end position draft_team height_in birth_date article_title draft ntl_team career_start
5 mighty metallurg magnitogorsk hc lada togliatti hc dynamo moscow hc mechel ducks of anaheim traktor chelyabinsk hc cska moscow 10 october 2014 left 176 chelyabinsk , soviet union chelyabinsk , russia 1993 2005 right wing mighty ducks of anaheim 10 5 august 1971 valeri karpov
 56th overall rus 1988
valeri karpov

valeri yevgenievich karpov -lrb- , 5 august 1971 -- 10 october 2014 -rrb- was an ice hockey player who played in the soviet hockey league and national hockey league .
he competed for traktor chelyabinsk and hc cska moscow in russia before moving to north america .
he was drafted 56th overall by the mighty ducks of anaheim in the 1993 nhl entry draft and joined the team the next season , but struggled to maintain a place in the ducks roster , bouncing around the minor leagues .
he played 76 regular season games for the ducks over three seasons , scoring 14 goals and 15 assists for 29 points , collecting 32 penalty minutes .
he returned to russia in 1997 , spending three seasons with metallurg magnitogorsk , helping them win the rsl title in 1999 .
after spells with hc lada togliatti and hc dynamo moscow , he returned to metallurg magnitogorsk in 2001 , where he stayed for another four years .
he was inducted into the russian and soviet hockey hall of fame in 1993 and retired in 2005 .
in the summer of 2014 , during a brawl in his house he took a hit to the head and had a bad fall that resulted in a coma .
he underwent two trepanning surgeries , but did not regain consciousness and died on 10 october 2014 .
