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    Nikolai Zherdev takes stick to crotch, elbow drop in KHL game (Video)

    By Greg Wyshynski | Puck Daddy – Fri, Feb 10, 2012 5:16 PM EST

    Nikolai Zherdev left the NHL after playing for the Philadelphia Flyers last season, returning to Atlant of the Kontinental Hockey League where he has 35 points in 47 games.

    He had a penalty shot goal in a game against Yugra on Sunday, and no one can argue he didn't earn it — it's the least the ref could do after defenseman Tomas Starosta slashed Zherdev's crotch.

    Later in the period, apparently having endeared himself to his opponents, Zherdev was hooked by Alexei Pepelyaev … who promptly dropped an elbow on him.

    Pepelyaev was given two minutes for hooking. Yurga won the game, 2-1, in a shootout. Zherdev survived, playing 23:25.

     

    15 comments

    • Nosferatu
      Nosferatu  •  Austin, Texas  •  3 months ago
      Zherdev had the balls to keep playing.
    • Kodywiddak
      Kodywiddak  •  3 months ago
      good to see zherdev doing good where he is a long ways away from laviolette's dog house
    • Guthrie
      Guthrie  •  Tucson, Arizona  •  3 months ago
      even with a cup that still hurts
    • Luke
      Luke  •  Woburn, Massachusetts  •  3 months ago
      As the video clearly shows........
    • YourMomLikesIt
      YourMomLikesIt  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 months ago
      Maybe he should wear a pelvic protector.
    • Steven W
      Steven W  •  Piscataway, New Jersey  •  3 months ago
      was hoping to see a people's elbow, but this will do i guess.....
    • Max
      Max  •  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  •  3 months ago
      the refs have sick jerseys- stripes on the front too love it!
    • Buggs.Crosby
      Buggs.Crosby  •  3 months ago
      Flyers should have kept him
    • Joey
      Joey  •  Irvine, California  •  3 months ago
      He deserved that elbow for diving so hard on that hook. Poosy stuff right there.
    • matt
      matt  •  Burlington, Canada  •  3 months ago
      Zherdev still owns one of the best goals ever scored in the NHL.
    • Ian B
      Ian B  •  3 months ago
      Zherdev derserves everything that is done to him. Little primadonna biaaatch!
    • Josh
      Josh  •  3 months ago
      Why can't Matt Cooke do these shenanigans? Or at least Marchaud. The Shanahammer would drool for this.

      "I'm not gonna name names, but I got forty games, ready to go, for someone on the Penguins."
    • Joel
      Joel  •  Dallas, Texas  •  3 months ago
      Looked like a pretty big dive on that hook...
      • Handyy
        Handyy 3 months ago
        99% of the NHL players would have gone to their knees after receiving that hit to the crotch.
      • Joel
        Joel 3 months ago
        I was talking about the hook in the 2nd video. I thought he handled the slash/hook to the groin pretty well (better than I would have anyway).
    • lmjiason
      lmjiason  •  Toronto, Canada  •  3 months ago
      If that kind of shit happened in the NHL, he would have had the other team pummeling him, no one did anything ? Thats one of the big diffs playing outside of NA.
    • YourMomLikesIt
      YourMomLikesIt  •  Los Angeles, California  •  3 months ago
      Gypsy Russian hockey. They'd get a beat down for that in the NHL.
      • bojan
        bojan 3 months ago
        Actually not true! Remember Miller? Nobody did anything!! NHL is pussfied too!!
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