Russian club hockey player NHL Colorado Avalanche Valery Nichushkin said he was forced to leave the team during the 2023 Stanley Cup for family reasons.
The Russian has not played for Colorado since the incident at a Seattle hotel on April 23, the day of Game 3 of the first-round playoff series against the Seattle Kraken. According to the police report, an intoxicated woman was found in Nichushkin’s room and the team doctor called an ambulance to take her to the hospital. Then the hockey player left Seattle and has not returned to the team since.
—It was family circumstances. I know you want to find something there, but there is nothing interesting there. I think we should close this case. “It’s a new season,” quotes The Athletic journalist Peter Bau on the Nichushkin social network.
Colorado lost to Seattle 3-4 in the first round of the NHL playoffs.
Nichushkin scored 47 points (17+30) in 53 regular season games in the 2022/23 season and scored one goal in two playoff games.
Source : MatchTV
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