Andrei Lomakin dead at 42

I got this message today:

According to rushockey.com one time Soviet national team member and NHLer Andrei Lomakin passed away recently at age 42 after a long illness. Does anyone else have any info on this?

And here's the link:

http://rushockey.com/print.php?i=sl&stream=sl_news&id=558

According to http://www.iihf.com/news/iihfpr6806.htm Lomakin lost his life to an unidentified form of cancer. He died in Detroit where he was receiving treatment.