Nikolay Zherdev story now has conflicting reports (of course it does)

by Travis Hughes on May 19, 2011 2:07 PM EDT in Philadelphia Flyers News

2 -- the number of conflicting reports on the Nikolay Zherdev-threatening-his-wife story. (Yes, this is the Two O'Clock Number.)

We passed along a Russian newspaper report earlier (very early, we should say) today on the subject, but via Puck Daddy comes this translation of a report in another Russian paper, Sovietsky Sport. It's the owner of the restaurant talking about the incident.

"There was nothing remotely similar to what was written on the Internet took place in front of our restaurant. This is such nonsense! I specifically asked the entire personnel, including security guards, but no one saw anything. Besides, we are located on the second floor of the building, there are two beauty salons, a flower store, a bank as our neighbors..."

Just going over the details in my mind, the original report said that Zherdev's wife left the restaurant and then went to her car and drove away. When she got to a nearby street light (or stuck in traffic) and had to stop, Zherdev then attacked her car with a metal pole.

The blow-up happened down the street then, right? Or, even if it happened right out front, and the restaurant is on the second floor like the guy says, his personnel easily could've missed the scene downstairs on the street, right?

Obviously, I've never been to this restaurant or this street so I'm just trying to think logically. And maybe this restaurant owner doesn't want this thing staining his establishment. Who knows what the motives are in both directions. I'm just thinking out loud here.

I think there are still a lot of questions to be asked and answered here.

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From Teemu’s article:

She went to the parking lot, got in her car and started driving away. She had to stop in the traffic lights only a couple of meters away from the restaurant. This is when Nikolay rushed out of the restaurant, caught up with his wife and tried to open the doors of the car, but his wife had locked the doors.

Seems like it should have been right out the door, that she drove back past the restaurant and was stopped at a nearby traffic light.

Lots of stuff that will come out as this progresses I’m sure.

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by DLJr on May 19, 2011 2:13 PM EDT reply actions

HERP DERP I HATE NIKOLAY ZHERDEV THEREFORE HE MUST BE GUILTY OF SPOUSAL ABUSE

just saving y’all the time and energy

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on May 19, 2011 2:19 PM EDT reply actions

HERP DE DERP TEH TEETLY TUM TA TOO

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by MeszarosKillsPeople on May 19, 2011 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions

favorite site

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on May 19, 2011 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Since I just got here and this is the first I heard about it, how many Brett Myers jokes did I miss?

by iJewJitsu on May 19, 2011 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions

JpH made one, I think that was it.

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by DLJr on May 19, 2011 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions

4chan is primarily where i spend most of the time on the internet. BSH is also in an open tab, too

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on May 19, 2011 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions

4chan, divine art, and twitter

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by JpH89 on May 19, 2011 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Rob Schneider Derp de Derp.

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by mikefive on May 19, 2011 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Ilya Kovalchuk Derp de Derp

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by Chemistry66 on May 19, 2011 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions

so he never actually hit 'her' then....

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by sophiejo on May 19, 2011 2:27 PM EDT reply actions

no, he never hit her. Just dented the shit out of her car with a metal pole

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on May 19, 2011 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions

case closed then…

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by sophiejo on May 19, 2011 2:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Most likely his car, purchased for her. It may be legally his or hers, but the fact of the matter is that he paid for it which should make it his property.

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by Psy09 on May 19, 2011 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions

I need to google the specifics of what constitued domestic violence, but i would imagine that it would involve ones person.

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by sophiejo on May 19, 2011 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions

Russian domestic violence, to be clear

Good luck

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on May 19, 2011 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Shit, great point! Well, I give up then…

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by sophiejo on May 19, 2011 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions

The Russian police beat you to it

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on May 19, 2011 2:36 PM EDT up reply actions

To be fair, it’s not like this is a good thing—but there’s a difference between someone who needs some anger mgmt training and someone who is physically abusive and being labeled a “wife beater”.

Aristotle was not Belgian, the principle of Buddhism is not "every man for himself", and the London Underground is not a political movement.

by doubleh on May 19, 2011 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions

Agreed, turning your wife’s car into a punching bag with her in it isn’t the best way to manage your anger.

He’s not OJ though, either.

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on May 19, 2011 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions

I guess, like you, I grew up in a household where airing one’s feelings (good and bad) were acceptable. Hitting isn’t good, but it is a natural response for those in stressful situations (fight or flight). As I said in the other thread, suppressing that instinct is what separates us from monkeys.

Aristotle was not Belgian, the principle of Buddhism is not "every man for himself", and the London Underground is not a political movement.

by doubleh on May 19, 2011 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh shit, didn’t see that Holl

You’re right, it truly depends on how and what environment you grew up in.

I remember a lot of yellow, and the holes in the walls, but there was never physical abuse. Hate when people yell now though, irritates the shit out of me

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on May 19, 2011 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions

I remember a lot of yellow,

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by iJewJitsu on May 19, 2011 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Were you trapped in the closet?

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by Chemistry66 on May 19, 2011 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Still one of the best episodes to date.

by iJewJitsu on May 19, 2011 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions

But I’m not in the closet

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by JerseyDriver on May 19, 2011 10:22 PM EDT up reply actions

lol piss off

yelling

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on May 19, 2011 3:36 PM EDT up reply actions

which was actually his car according to the reports, said it was a Bentley too, poor car

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by MeszarosKillsPeople on May 19, 2011 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions

a Bentley! Damn…seems like the seed is strong with this guy

/game of throne’d

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by sophiejo on May 19, 2011 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions

He should have never bought her the 2011 Porsche Laviolette.

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by boknows71 on May 19, 2011 2:31 PM EDT reply actions

I’d still sign him for 1.5. He’s better offensive than Leino and 1.5 is half of the 3+ ville could get…

by OrangeNblacK on May 19, 2011 2:33 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

I would too. Maybe this will scare Lavy into playing him more.

by hebrew hammer on May 19, 2011 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Hope this doesn’t land him in… the dog house!

LOL… right?

… right?

by OriginJM on May 19, 2011 2:37 PM EDT reply actions

Travis, I'm disappointed. Any journalist would have used this as the picture:

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by Ben Rothenberg on May 19, 2011 2:48 PM EDT reply actions

Agreed, how can HE hit a woman.

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by JpH89 on May 19, 2011 2:51 PM EDT up reply actions

I want to punt that cat off a bridge, Nik looks like a fucking noodle in this

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by MeszarosKillsPeople on May 19, 2011 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Ron Burgendy(sp) at your service.

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by Psy09 on May 19, 2011 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions

PROOF that he has it in him to hit a woman. He is smiling while strangling this kitten!

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by coheedandtbs on May 19, 2011 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions

What you don’t see is him sitting on the rest of the litter.

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by Mike B on D on May 19, 2011 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions

The one in gif form with sunglasses is even better.

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by ww2b on May 19, 2011 7:27 PM EDT up reply actions

The real problem here is that Z hates cars, cause cars kill cats.

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by JpH89 on May 19, 2011 2:58 PM EDT reply actions

And scene.

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by Ben Rothenberg on May 19, 2011 3:37 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Just think of this clip, but with cars not cans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT3cGdLIHA4&feature=related

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by JpH89 on May 19, 2011 3:01 PM EDT reply actions

one of the more memorable scenes from Black Hawk Down

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on May 19, 2011 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Isn’t every story about an argument or altercation a conflicting report?

by iJewJitsu on May 19, 2011 3:22 PM EDT reply actions

Reminds me of my last living situation. My roommate and his girlfriend used to fight all the time. She would hit him or do something ridiculous and since he couldn’t hit her back he would end up destroying his own things. He punched through his car windshield once. You can be abusive without hitting your wife/girlfriend but I’d like to know what she did to piss him off. Zherdev could either be a complete asshole who verbally and psychologically abuses his wife or he could have had a moment of rage that he now regrets. I can’t judge or defend him without knowing more about the incident.

by DrunkHockeyFan on May 19, 2011 3:32 PM EDT reply actions

….I blame her.

If Little Nicky was mad enough to hurt her, I am glad he hit the car instead.

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by Cillo stache on May 19, 2011 3:35 PM EDT reply actions

Hah. Of course you do.

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by Katchis on May 19, 2011 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions

What? We don’t know what went on before he went bonkers. The immediate reaction here is that it is all his fault. We don’t know what went on before that. She could abuse him. She could have said something to really piss him off. I’m not blaming her, though I did write that, I mean it in the sense she is in no way innocent. Neither party here is innocent.

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by Cillo stache on May 19, 2011 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions

there were a few of us not jumping to conclusions yesterday

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by Val_d'Or on May 20, 2011 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions

Google Earth the establishment and we will all have a better idea of what we are working with! haha

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by Psy09 on May 19, 2011 3:42 PM EDT reply actions

Resign Zherdev. He can be our enforcer. We just have to convince the league that allowing metal poles would really help ratings.

by DrunkHockeyFan on May 19, 2011 3:46 PM EDT reply actions

What about a pointed stick?

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by Mike B on D on May 19, 2011 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions

I"m not even convinced he was hitting it with a “metal pole.” What, did he rip a stop sign out of the ground Hulk style? I’d imagine Nik and his wife spend their time at the type of restaurants that don’t have random litter all over the place…I mean, if I made that type of money I’d be living it up in a nice area.

Also, I’m still wondering what set him off. My guess is that either she learned about a girlfriend in the US, or he got home and found out she had a boyfriend in Russia while he was playing hockey over here. I mean, he’s in the NHL so the odds of him have like 5 mistresses is pretty high relative to an average Joe.

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by Pardini36 on May 19, 2011 4:45 PM EDT reply actions

In my own personal experience

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on May 19, 2011 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions

This is how we say good bye in "Russia"

Seriously…maybe something got lost in translation and really Z was just saying goodbye…in a very demonstrative manner.

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by EREX21 on May 19, 2011 5:38 PM EDT reply actions

How very enigmatic of him.

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by ww2b on May 19, 2011 7:31 PM EDT up reply actions

This pic again? It’s like Z was thinking of scoring Ovechkin styles on his back but totally couldn’t and ended up at the boards crying in his own waste.

by Gonzotatcics on May 19, 2011 7:58 PM EDT reply actions

I do not pretend to be a preeminent authority on the subject of domestic violence. However, my wife is, and is recognized as such by the state, the university system, by the social work community at large. She has presented at and led conferences on the subject, appeared many times on NPR, PBS, and numerous other media. She has appeared many times in court as an expert witness in both civil and criminal trials. She has a private practice, the vast majority of which involves helping victims deal with and overcome the horrendous trauma they suffered at the hands of others. After more than 20 years of marriage to this woman, coupled with my own experience on jury duty as well as witnessing first hand such inhuman behavior, I can say this much:
If Zherdev behaved in the way Teemu described early this morning, then he has committed a form of domestic violence and should be prosecuted and punished to the extent allowable by law.

To those of you who have sought to make jokes about this (and you know who you are), I have only this to say:
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by mtitanic on May 19, 2011 8:16 PM EDT reply actions