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Sean Avery Suspended Indefinitely (pg. 6)
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| elFreak |
avery has always played like a , expecting him to be a man is asking a lot.
those comments are ok on the ice, not in the media. we all know he would not fight phaneuf. |
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| bluE_Neon |
Avery doesn't fight? :stongue: He'd take on any of you enviest sissys & you'd all end up in the hospital :stongue: Avery would steal your girlfriend in front of your eyes, do nasty things to her & she would love every minute of it.
Avery is a real badass but doesn't really think twice sometimes about his choice of vocabulary and definitely to the media. Any of these NHL team franchises search for one badboy with balls. Teams need that just like they need talent. Badboys take care of the dirty work & most of the time they are the leaders of the fights where rest of the team follows. Why won't you all sissys just stop whining and go watch UFC/Affliction :haha: while real badboys continue living & mesmerizing girls. |
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| Spin Laden |
| quote: | Originally posted by bluE_Neon
Avery doesn't fight? :stongue: He'd take on any of you enviest sissys & you'd all end up in the hospital :stongue: Avery would steal your girlfriend in front of your eyes, do nasty things to her & she would love every minute of it.
Avery is a real badass but doesn't really think twice sometimes about his choice of vocabulary and definitely to the media. Any of these NHL team franchises search for one badboy with balls. Teams need that just like they need talent. Badboys take care of the dirty work & most of the time they are the leaders of the fights where rest of the team follows. Why won't you all sissys just stop whining and go watch UFC/Affliction :haha: while real badboys continue living & mesmerizing girls. |
Oh geez.. guido post of 2008 :haha:
anyways, Avery likely won't play in the NHL this year but will probably get picked up by some grit-lacking team badly needing a disturber (who can occasionally score). Sports GMs have short memories regarding players with track records: look at how many chances Chris Simon has had. If age weren't a factor, guys like him and Theoren Fleury would find work. Even Todd Bertuzzi's still playing. You can go on and on ...
I mean, come on.. he didn't quite pull a Barry Bonds :p
Avery will likely sit in purgatory for the rest of the season, but some GM will assume that he's finally learned his lesson *smirk*
He'll get bought out and then will have to settle for a smaller contract. |
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| Dior Homme |
| I'm sure a team overseas will pick him up. Everyone will forget about this situation just like any other. There are far worse things that has happened that will diminish the NHLs reputation more than sloppy seconds. |
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| elFreak |
| Maybe he can go play with Ray Emery. |
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| exstasie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dior Homme
I'm sure a team overseas will pick him up. Everyone will forget about this situation just like any other. There are far worse things that has happened that will diminish the NHLs reputation more than sloppy seconds. |
We could use someone like that on the Leafs...
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| smuncky |
| quote: | Originally posted by elFreak
Maybe he can go play with Ray Emery. |
:haha: |
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| Dior Homme |
| quote: | Originally posted by elFreak
Maybe he can go play with Ray Emery. |
I was actually thinking that when I wrote it. |
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| Dr. DAS |
There's a difference between talking smack on the ice and just being a douchebag.
On the ice, you can call my mother a c*nt, my sister a whore and my grandmother an AIDS-spreading monkey-f*cker. In the dressing room? On camera? Remember who you represent and stick to the game. Sports reporters don't give a about your sour grapes.
And - I'd take Elisha Cuthbert as sloppy 45ths if I had to. |
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| Spin Laden |
| quote: | Originally posted by exstasie
We could use someone like that on the Leafs...
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I was thinking the same thing. Don't put it past Brian Burke to go against the grain and go after an albeit 'contained' Avery, like the Avery who played for the Rangers (see Todd Bertuzzi, Anaheim).
He'll probably go after Ray Emery's former coke buddy too, Brian McGrattan. :p |
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| teufel-man |
Suspension = 6 games; I think this is a appropriate, any longer would have been an abuse of power by the NHL. BTW now that I look back on it I think the main reason why this was such a big deal was because it had nothing to do with hockey and crossed the line into players personal lives... I guess he was just trying to hype up the game, which I give him credit for. However, like someone mentioned before, these are things you say on ice, not in front of a TV camera.
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NHL's Avery gets six game suspension
TheStar.com - Sports - NHL's Avery gets six game suspension
December 05, 2008
THE CANADIAN PRESS
NEW YORK–Sean Avery's potty mouth has landed him a six-game suspension.
The Dallas Stars agitator will also have to seek professional anger management help and receive clearance before he returns to action – as a consequence of crude comments deemed by the league to be detrimental to the game
"Mr. Avery has expressed remorse for his recent comments and has sought a professional anger management evaluation," commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement Friday. "I will require that he follow through with that process as a condition of his returning to the ice and that he complies with any and all recommendations.
"Mr. Avery has been warned repeatedly about his conduct and comments, which have too often been at odds with the manner in which his more than 700 fellow players conduct themselves.
"Playing in the National Hockey League is a privilege, requiring a high standard of personal behaviour. Mr. Avery forfeits that privilege for six games."
Avery will not be eligible to play again for the Stars until Dec. 16, when Dallas hosts the Phoenix Coyotes. He already has served two games of the suspension – Tuesday's game against Calgary and Wednesday's game against Edmonton.
Avery landed in hot water Tuesday when he sought reporters in Calgary to say he didn't understand why fellow NHLers were falling in love with his "sloppy seconds." The comment was interpreted as a shot at Flames defenceman Dion Phaneuf, who is dating Canadian actress Elisha Cuthbert, Avery's ex-girlfriend.
Hours later, Bettman suspended him indefinitely for making "inappropriate public comments, not pertaining to the game." Stars owner Tom Hicks and others around the league were quick to criticize Avery.
Avery issued a statement of apology Wednesday, saying: "I should not have made those comments and I recognize that they were inappropriate.
"It was a bad attempt to build excitement for the game, but I am now acutely aware of how hurtful my actions were. I caused unnecessary embarrassment to my peers as well as people I have been close with in the past.
"I apologize for offending the great fans of the NHL, the commissioner, my teammates, my coaching staff and the Dallas Stars management and ownership. As many of you know, I like to mix it up on and off the ice from time to time, but understand that this time I took it too far."
The latest indiscretion from the controversial the 28-year-old began when he walked over to a group of reporters in Calgary on Tuesday morning and said: "I'm just going to say one thing. I'm really happy to be back in Calgary; I love Canada. I just want to comment on how it's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don't know what that's about, but enjoy the game tonight."
Avery's former girlfriend, Canadian actress Elisha Cuthbert of the television show "24" and the movie "Old School," is dating Flames defenceman Dion Phaneuf. She also had been romantically linked to Montreal defenceman Mike Komisarek.
Avery will no doubt have some serious fence-mending to do with the Stars, who gave him a $15.5-million (U.S.), four-year deal over the summer.
Hicks released a statement Tuesday backing Bettman's decision to suspend Avery indefinitely, saying: "Had the league not have suspended him, the Dallas Stars would have. This organization will not tolerate such behaviour."
Goaltender Marty Turco said Avery, "better show up like a man," after learning of his comments while other teammates just shook their heads.
Avery's absence comes with the Stars fighting injuries and a lack of healthy bodies that has turned last season's Western Conference finalists into one of the worst teams in the NHL so far this season.
Over his seven seasons in the NHL, Avery has grown into hockey's most-hated player, a role he relishes. Yet for all he's done to annoy foes on and off the ice, this is the first time he's been suspended by the league.
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