Report: Zherdev attacks wife, criminal charges await

Now my hatred is even more justified. Am I surprised though? No.

What a fucking idiot. Rocket scientist he is not.

Well… this is a good way to clear cap space.

According to the arrest warrant, there aren’t enough grounds to hold Zherdev accountable for the death threats as he allegedly had no serious motive to actually kill his wife.

To me this basically sounds like they aren’t taking the death threats seriously.

In my opinion, they should take them seriously. Obviously his wife took them seriously enough to rather choose driving a highway in the wrong direction than wait for her dear husband to beat her up with a metal pole.

Now Ville doesn’t have to worry about getting a contract from the Flyers now. Zherdev is gone.

Well, here comes the over used “ZOMG Flyers are goons thugs and wife beaters!! The newspaper said so!”

Scumbag.

And I didn’t think he had any fire in his belly. Not that I condone domestic abuse but hitting the car doesn’t mean he would have hit her so he is not a wife beater until we hear evidence of such conduct. It is petulant behavior but not domestic abuse.

And where was this passion during the year YahtZEE. Damn. Half of that, and you are in the lineup all year. What a dumb ass. Anyone remember the D man Smith. He went bonkers and smacked his wife around. Maybe YahtZEE’s wife told him he was a enigma in bed like he is on the ice. Seriously, that’s not acceptable behavior for anyone.

1. I bet Russia has the worst Italian food imaginable.
2. I highly doubt they were “enjoying” this meal. Not only did it end with threats of death, it featured the aforementioned Russian Italian food.
3. Odds this started from a table conflict? Can you imagine asking Zherdev to “pass the anything” and having him do it?

It was interesting rereading the comments on Jason Smith and then reading the comments about Z. We love to judge who we don’t like and love to hope for misunderstandings or excuses for those we do like.

Just very interesting how the tone of the comments on the two are completely different.

I would hit a woman but I’d shake the shit out of her beat up her car with a metal pole.

/ChrisRock’d

The Russian Brett Myers….

Although we SHOULD wait till we put everything into perspective. I mean, Tiger Woods wife forced him to drive his car off the road, then beat him with a driver and almost killed the guy, but NOBODY really blames her for her actions. Maybe some really bid shit went down….

But really, Its not like Z was coming back. But this puts the “Russian Player” stereotype with the Fans/Management down another notch.

I don’t condone what Jason Smith did. I don’t condone what Brett Myers did. And I don’t condone what Nikolay Zherdev did. Innocent until proven guilty, yes. But honestly, I don’t understand how beating on his wife’s car is somehow more acceptable than beating on her directly. Neither should be excused.

If she tried to run him down, I doubt she would have done it once and then suddenly thought better of it. And I’m sure his reaction would have been, “Holy sh!t, this woman is crazy.” And he’d probably have run away. He wouldn’t have started attacking the car. Just my two cents. My feelings are that he was the aggressor here, but again, innocent until proven guilty.

As for people bringing up the “Russian Player” stereotype: HE IS ONLY A RUSSIAN CITIZEN. HE IS UKRAINIAN BY BIRTH.

From Wikipeedja:

Born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Zherdev began playing hockey at the age of four. He began his training with the Sokil Kyiv junior hockey affiliate. Due to complications with organizing a team for his age group, he was pushed to play a year ahead with the 1983 born players; a group which included fellow future Ukrainian NHLer Anton Babchuk. While participating in an overseas peewee tournament in Quebec, Canada, Zherdev’s team found itself competing against a team from Elektrostal, Russia. The rival team’s coach, Ravil Iskakhov, took note of both Zherdev and Babchuk, and invited the pair to further their development with the Elemash Elektrostal hockey club of the Russian Major League, to which they accepted together. The desire to play at a higher level came at a price: his nationality. In order to play in Russia, he would be forced to apply for Russian citizenship.

As for Kiev:

Kiev or Kyiv (Ukrainian: Київ; Russian: Киев) is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River.

Know who else was born in Kiev and played here? Ruslan Fedotenko. And everyone referred/refers to him as Ukrainian… because that’s what he is. Same is ultimately true with Zherdev, even though he was pretty much forced into Russian citizenship.

If I really wanted to, I could move to Poland, prove my lineage coming from there, and become a citizen fairly easily. But even if I did that I would still consider myself American. I was born in America and lives my life here. I am of Italian and Polish stock, but if I became a citizen of one of those places I wouldn’t stop being American.

Terrible story God bles them both – if he had that passion on the ice ….

I love how it’s automatically interpretted that Z must be mentally abusing his wife, and it couldn’t possibly be his wife mentally abusing Z. We all must here more about the story, before we pass judgment

In Soviet Russia, career destroy you!

Holmgren called him strange it was justified.

What Bill Meltzer said:

http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Bill-Meltzer/Meltzers-Musings-Zherdev/45/35950