A few weeks ago, the trial for a civil suit against Semyon Varlamov came to a close. The seven-person jury unanimously found in favor of the Avalanche goaltender, going as far as to award him damages in the amount of his attorney’s fees. The plaintiff, former girlfriend Evgeniya Vavrinyuk, was found guilty of Malicious Prosecution—intentionally and maliciously filing a legal action that has no probable cause. In other words, the jury did not believe Vavrinyuk’s story that Varlamov severely and purposefully beat her on the morning of October 29, 2013.
I, along with BSN Avalanche editor AJ Haefele, covered the trial each day from gavel to gavel.