When my agent called me up and said that I was going to be a guest star on a television show called Chopped! I was afraid maybe this was some competition show that maybe was going to end my career by ending with getting my fingers chopped off or something like that.  It turns out, in America, they compete in cooking and put it on TV for people to watch.  I wasn't aware of the show and I don't know how to cook anything other than grandma's Borscht recipe so naturally I decided to do the show.  Being a young guy from Russia over here I thought maybe it would be fun.  

I got on the show and didn't know how to cook anything.  So I was really surprised that there were no beets in any of the ingredients they had for us.  I ended up trying to make a carrot borscht but that didn't turn out so well for me.  They decided to send me home after the first round.  Some guy named Mario Lopez beat me out along with some guy named Puck who I guess was a meth head on TV at some point in his life.  I'm not really sure who they were.  Overall I say it was a fun enough time, but I'll probably stick to hockey from here on out.