Former NHL player has just been suspended for two years by the KHL

RUSADA's disciplinary committee suspended CSKA Moscow forward Vladislav Kamenev for two years after meldonium was found in a sample tied to March 2025.

The reading came back at 451 nanograms per millilitre against the 100 ng/mL threshold WADA applies to that substance.

Nobody at the hearing argued the test was wrong, because at four times over the line there was nothing to argue.

What his lawyers argued instead is the part worth reading twice. Their case was built around counterfeit imported dietary supplements now reaching Russia through third-country shipping chains rather than direct supply.

Four years is the maximum available sanction. The committee accepted enough of that supplement argument to cut the term in half, which is a formal finding that intent was not established.

Kamenev has said he does not accept the outcome and is weighing an appeal. His legal team spent roughly a year and a half on the file.

He is not the only one. CSKA defenceman Nikita Sedov tested positive for the same substance and received the same two-year term, and the club terminated his contract in August 2025.

Two players, one dressing room, one compound. That is not a character study, it is a supply chain, and every NHL organization with Russian players training at home over the summer is drawing from the same unaudited shelf.

Kamenev sat out all of 2025-26 and is now a free agent, eligible to return in March 2027. He won three Gagarin Cups and played 66 NHL games for Nashville and Colorado before any of this.

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