Idgaf about lawyer. Just trade his ass. Let him be some other team's problem.Here we go.....This gonna get even more "ugly" over the summer.....
I hope the AVS have hired the best lawyers they can get......
Second episode about Colorado and Valerey Nichushkin
Main quote:
About the situation in Seattle:
“It was the most difficult season, there were a lot of injuries in the team all season. I missed 2 months due to bursitis. I also had a shoulder injury, which constantly bothered me. I always had problems sleeping, but because of the pain in my shoulder, the situation with my sleep got worse. They did an MRI and they couldn’t decide whether to have surgery or not. In the end, they decided not to do it and gave me injections in my shoulder. These injections stopped helping and they decided to inject me with another drug. When we flew to Seattle, they decided that I would not play the match due to a shoulder injury, because I needed to not bother my shoulder for a while until the drug starts working and everyone on the team knew that I would not play until the end of the round. It put a lot of pressure on the psyche and was very annoying. I had friends in Seattle at that moment and I made the wrong decision, we hung out with them at night and in the morning I flew to Denver. This girl in my room has nothing to do with me. The club advised me not to give any comments, and I myself was not emotionally ready to explain all this. This was probably the wrong decision and it was necessary to tell the whole situation right away so that there weren’t a bunch of different rumors. If we had made it to the second round, I would have been ready to play."
As I understood his story, he knew that he would not play against Seattle and went drinking with friends at night, and apparently this girl was in this company, or his friends hired her as a prostitute.
Second episode about Colorado and Valerey Nichushkin
Main quote:
About the situation in Seattle:
“It was the most difficult season, there were a lot of injuries in the team all season. I missed 2 months due to bursitis. I also had a shoulder injury, which constantly bothered me. I always had problems sleeping, but because of the pain in my shoulder, the situation with my sleep got worse. They did an MRI and they couldn’t decide whether to have surgery or not. In the end, they decided not to do it and gave me injections in my shoulder. These injections stopped helping and they decided to inject me with another drug. When we flew to Seattle, they decided that I would not play the match due to a shoulder injury, because I needed to not bother my shoulder for a while until the drug starts working and everyone on the team knew that I would not play until the end of the round. It put a lot of pressure on the psyche and was very annoying. I had friends in Seattle at that moment and I made the wrong decision, we hung out with them at night and in the morning I flew to Denver. This girl in my room has nothing to do with me. The club advised me not to give any comments, and I myself was not emotionally ready to explain all this. This was probably the wrong decision and it was necessary to tell the whole situation right away so that there weren’t a bunch of different rumors. If we had made it to the second round, I would have been ready to play."
As I understood his story, he knew that he would not play against Seattle and went drinking with friends at night, and apparently this girl was in this company, or his friends hired her as a prostitute.
He has sleeping issues, his agent was right from the start.Nuke doesn’t do drugs! He doesn’t even drink!!
There’s one part of that story that I believe is absolutely true:Nuke doesn’t do drugs! He doesn’t even drink!!
Yes.Are there some boys and girls in here who really believe this team and locker welcomes this guy back with open arms.....
Isn't there a different protocol for PED abuse?Maybe the drug test Val failed wasn’t cocaine but performance enhancing stuff? Steroids or something maybe
That I don’t knowIsn't there a different protocol for PED abuse?
And AFAIK, it has never been established that Nuke has been coked up. I thought there were rumblings that it was opioids, painkillers.
That I don’t know
47.7 Disciplinary Penalties.
(a) Positive tests for performance enhancing substances on the Prohibited Substances
List will result in mandatory discipline as follows:
(i) for the first positive test, a suspension of twenty (20) NHL Games without
pay, and mandatory referral to the SABH Program for evaluation and
possible treatment;
(ii) for the second positive test, a suspension of sixty (60) NHL Games
without pay, and mandatory referral to the SABH Program for evaluation
and possible treatment;
(iii) for the third positive test, a "permanent" suspension, although a Player so
suspended can reapply for discretionary reinstatement after a minimum
period of two (2) years by making an application to the Program
Committee
“It was the most difficult season, there were a lot of injuries in the team all season. I missed 2 months due to bursitis. I also had a shoulder injury, which constantly bothered me. I always had problems sleeping, but because of the pain in my shoulder, the situation with my sleep got worse. They did an MRI and they couldn’t decide whether to have surgery or not. In the end, they decided not to do it and gave me injections in my shoulder. These injections stopped helping and they decided to inject me with another drug. When we flew to Seattle, they decided that I would not play the match due to a shoulder injury, because I needed to not bother my shoulder for a while until the drug starts working and everyone on the team knew that I would not play until the end of the round. It put a lot of pressure on the psyche and was very annoying. I had friends in Seattle at that moment and I made the wrong decision, we hung out with them at night and in the morning I flew to Denver. This girl in my room has nothing to do with me. The club advised me not to give any comments, and I myself was not emotionally ready to explain all this. This was probably the wrong decision and it was necessary to tell the whole situation right away so that there weren’t a bunch of different rumors. If we had made it to the second round, I would have been ready to play.”
PED abuse is like Nate Schmidt’s suspension.Isn't there a different protocol for PED abuse?
And AFAIK, it has never been established that Nuke has been coked up. I thought there were rumblings that it was opioids, painkillers.
No, if that was the case what the team and teammates said after he got caught would make absolutely no sense whatsoever. It's cocaine.Maybe the drug test Val failed wasn’t cocaine but performance enhancing stuff? Steroids or something maybe
Probably because they realize he's a f***ing idiot and shouldn't be anywhere near a microphone.I bet that pisses them off.
If there's one thing that I strongly believe in Nuke's story is that the Avs wanted to keep him quiet and out of the news