KHL Coach Calls For Arrest And Solitary Confinement Of Spittin' Chiclets Guest For "Badmouthing Russia"

Jesus. And Whits thought that Michel Therrien was bad.

Well, he’s got nothing on former NHL face puncher Andrei Nazarov, who now coaches Nizhnekamsk of the KHL. Nazarov, who was given the nickname “The Russian Keenan” since becoming a coach, didn’t take too kindly to comments made by Spittin’ Chiclets guest T.J. Galiardi a couple of weeks ago. (Skip to 1:06:35 for the KHL talk.)

On the episode, Galiardi recounted how Nazarov wanted him to take the needle (for pain) so he could play with a banged-up hand even though the doctor said not to stickhandle for a week (the needle went in his ass cheek). So he took the needle, played the game, got sick and had a crippling pain in his hip.

He got an MRI after which the team doctor said it was nothing and that he could play. Barely able to walk, he called his agent to reach out to the team. The GM said either get treated at the archaic local hospital that Galiardi described as “disgusting” or pay your own freight in Moscow. He opted to pay for his own care in Moscow. The tests there revealed that he contracted an infection from the needle he took to the ass check at the behest of his coach, Andrei Nazarov.

Oh, and he called the town a “top three shithole in the KHL”.

For that, Nazarov wants Galiardi to do 15 days in solitary. Without a toilet. But that’s a completely normal reaction to a guy dropping “truth bombs” in an authoritarian society in which some of the biggest yes men wear ice skates. Malamud makes a connection to a recently aired TV masterpiece.

It should only be a matter of time before Whitney has Grinnelli tasting his food for him. And “we’ll put you on the Most Wanted List in Russia, just like Whit” turned out to be the best prediction that Biz has ever made on Chiclets.

Sick league. Literally.