Nik Antropov spear leads to epic embellishment, crazy coach (Video)

Remember Nik Antropov?

Preposterously tall forward for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Atlanta Thrashers and Winnipeg Jets? He’s in the KHL now with Barys Astana, which is in the playoffs vying for the Gagarin Cup, a.k.a. the only trophy in sports named after a Cosmonaut.

In a game on Wednesday against Avangard Omsk, Antropov got into it with Chad Kolarik, whom who may remember from cups of coffee with the Columbus Blue Jackets and the New York Rangers. After a stoppage in play, Antropov stuck his stick in the midsection of Kolarik, who had scored Omsk’s second goal, in a dastardly little move.

Now, it’s entirely possible that he caught Kolarik in the how-do-you-do or exerted more force than it appears he did. But from the angles we see here … it appears Kolarik may have embellished this a little. In the sense that we haven’t seen overacting like that since the last episode of GIRLS.

Then the real fun began, as Omsk’s coach Raimo Summanen, which we believe is Russian for “John Tortorella,” became quite animated with the officials after it became apparent that Antropov would not be penalized but Omsk would receive an interference penalty – taking a player’s stick and waving it at them, indicating they missed the spear.

But then Summanen has always been, ahem, a fan of the refs:

And …

Oh yeah: Omsk won the game, 4-3. Kolarik was able to recover from that Spear From Hell and played 18:47.

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