Avs forward Valeri Nichushkin suspended for at least 6 months an hour before Game 4 against Stars

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Torrential slide forward Valeri Nichushkin was suspended for at slightest six months without pay and put in organize 3 of the league’s player help program some time recently Diversion 4 on Monday night of a second-round arrangement with Dallas.

The National Hockey Alliance and National Hockey Association Players’ Affiliation reported the news almost an hour some time recently the begin of the diversion with the Stars. It’s the moment time this season he’s been in the program. Organize 3 implies Nichushkin abused the terms of the program.

The 29-year-old Russian forward will miss the rest of the postseason and the to begin with month another season at a minimum.

He leads the group with nine playoff objectives this season.

Nichushkin was gone for about two months prior this season to get care from the NHLPA/NHL Player Help Program for issues that were not uncovered. This was on the heels of lost the last five diversions of a playoff misfortune final season for what the group clarified as individual reasons.

Nichushkin wasn’t accessible to the group from Jan. 13 to Walk 7 after entering the program. He got to be the moment Torrential slide player to enter the program amid the normal season, taking after defenseman Samuel Girard, who said in November that uneasiness and sadness driven to liquor manhandle. Girard returned in mid-December.