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by IwoCPO on 07/19/07 at 12:24 PM ET
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Sergei Fedorov isn’t speaking to the Russian media.  How do I know that?  Because in an interview with the Russian media he told them he’s no longer speaking to them.  Got it? 

“37 year old center of the Columbus Blue Jackets Sergei Fedorov, who according to rumors was going to get his contract bought out by his club to be then traded to the Detroit Red Wings declined to comment the situation. 

—I just flew in to LA from Detroit, Fedorov yesterday told Igor Larin of Sport-Express.  In California I am planning to undergo the treatment for elbow and groin injuries.  Regarding possibilities of any moves to another club, I will not discuss this subject.  Besides, in the middle of the last season before the start of the World Championship in Moscow I decided not to talk to Russian reporters.”

Good point Sergei.

I don’t have the link, but will post it for all the Russian linguists out there as soon as I get it.

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... wait ... how does one both trade and buy out a contract?  Wouldn’t buying out a contract mean that he’s effectively being dismissed from the team?  And wouldn’t trading him mean that Columbus couldn’t buy out the contract?

Am I misunderstanding this?  Or are Russians just in love with paradoxes, or something?

Posted by Michael from Columbus, OH on 07/19/07 at 01:10 PM ET

Russians are a paradoxical people. 

Or maybe the rumors are a bit mangled.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 07/19/07 at 01:25 PM ET

Here’s the article in Russian…I did the best I could with Promt, which is the best Russian-English translator out there, but the nuances of language are always best conveyed via a native-speaker thereof.

Big Daddy Fedorov (Viktor) and Igor Larin are bestest buddies, but I respect Sergei’s desire to simply tell the Russian media to buzz off so that they can’t take his comments out of context (which is, basically, what the Russian media does as they’re a tabloid media in general)—especially Larin, who’d all but attempted to put Yashin’s pen to paper on a “dream” contract with Detroit because the match-up suited Larin’s tastes.

Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 07/19/07 at 01:49 PM ET

When I was reading the article it struck as rather strange when a contract buyout and a trade are mentioned in the same sentence.  It seems to me that the Russian DD doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.
As far as the Russians being “paradoxial people”... Oh, yeah, we are!!!!

Posted by Mike from Appleton, Wisconsin on 07/19/07 at 07:04 PM ET

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