Seattle police release bodycam video of a hotel incident with Avalanche star Nichushkin and a VERY Drunk Ukrainian woman which made him miss the championship

Newly released police body camera footage is raising questions about Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin's mysterious absence from an April 22 playoff game in Seattle after an unidentified and allegedly intoxicated woman was removed from his hotel room and placed into an ambulance.

It was previously reported that police responded to a crisis call at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seattle at 3:44pm on April 22, shortly before the Avalanche excused the Russian-born Nichushkin from the team due to 'personal reasons.'

Then, in early May, the Seattle Times reported about a 911 call stemming from the incident, in which an unidentified caller said a woman was suspected to have 'OD'd on alcohol potentially or something got mixed in a drink.' That call was made at 3:20pm – reportedly as Avalanche players were boarding a team bus for Game 3 of their playoff series with the Seattle Kraken.

Now, following a public-disclosure request from the Seattle Times, the Seattle Police Department released more than 40 minutes of footage from the Four Seasons Hotel on April 22. Nichushkin is notably absent from the footage, but a woman claiming to be from Ukraine, by way of Russia, is heard being questioned by police, as is team physician Dr. Bradley Changstrom.

Changstrom told police that the unidentified woman had been either inside Nichushkin's hotel room or standing outside his door for up 'two hours' before team personnel brought her to the lobby to wait for first responders. He then says that he cannot explain the events of the previous '12 hours' or how long the woman was in the room with Nichushkin.

It's unclear why the woman was moved from the room by team personnel if she was in medical distress, as was claimed in the previously reported 911 call.

At one point Changstrom told officers that he and Avalanche security team member Todd Fuller were in the hotel room with the woman 'trying to get clothes on her,' but that she resisted their help and ultimately hit one of them in the arm.

Changstrom denied that any crime had taken place inside the hotel room, and went on to tell an officer that Nichushkin was 'taken away for his own health and safety stuff.'