Russia's three-time world champion and Olympian was among three Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) players who were banned this week.

Zaripov has been ruled out of action until May 22, 2019 by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) after submitting a sample containing a "category S6.b stimulant" plus "category S5 diuretics and masking agents".

The 36-year-old was a member of victorious Russian teams at the 2008, 2009 and 2014 IIHF World Championships and also featured at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

He recorded 16 goals and 29 assists in 56 games for KHL runners-up Metallurg Magnitogorsk last season.

Zaripov has vowed to appeal against the two-year sanction.

Canadian Derek Smith and Russia's Andrei Konev were also suspended for using banned stimulants, the KHL said.

Konev will only be banned until November 19 this year while Smith will be ruled out until September 2, 2018.

Tretiak has claimed the RHF will do everything they can to help keep ice hockey clean.

"Doping abuse in ice hockey is a very rare case," the former goaltender said, according to Russian news agency TASS.

"The key task for the RHF is to offer all necessary conditions to make the sport of ice hockey clean and healthy.

"Today thousands of boys come playing ice hockey and we will do everything possible to safeguard them from doping.

"We will have no mercy fighting against this evil."

The cases come with the world's second largest league claiming that 377 doping tests conducted last season were administered in conjunction with the IIHF and the World Anti-Doping Agency. 

Russia is still seeking to prove its reformed doping system as the Russian Anti-Doping Agency remains suspended following the McLaren Report revelations about a state-sponsored drugs testing system in the country.

Recently introduced measures include a clampdown on funding athletes implicated in doping cases.

The Russian ice hockey team at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics looks set to largely be consisted of KHL players.

This follows the National Hockey League's (NHL) decision not to send its players to South Korea following a dispute over costs and halting the season.

Tretiak said this would not be a problem for Russia despite many top players from the nation plying their trade in the NHL. 

"The team will be made up of players from the KHL and we will do everything possible to provide for their successful performance in South Korea," he said.