My knee jerk reaction....
http://stars.hockeyanalysis.com/
Quote:
Avery shoots himself in the leg
December 2nd, 2008 by Brad
Or was that Plaxico Burress? It’s hard to tell because now Gary Bettman thinks he’s Roger Goodell and is going to start moderating morality from Toronto by suspending Sean Avery indefinitely.
a) It doesn’t matter. The wheels were coming off of this thing anyway.
b) This really throws into light how a place like Dallas is good for Avery. No one cares here, and no one’s asking him for sound bites. But in Canada, hockey is covered like the Cowboys are covered in Dallas (don’t laugh, it’s true) and Sean just couldn’t help but pop off at the mouth a little bit about a Calgary player and his ex-girlfriend.
If he just could have made it through his first road trip to each city and let them run their dumb stories and let them ask their dumb questions, this could have been avoided. But then he wouldn’t be him, would he?
Because the truth of the matter is that each place the Stars have gone so far has run a Sean Avery story (New York, NJ, NYI, Los Angeles, etc…) but he has pretty much nothing to do with what’s going on during the games. He hasn’t had the negative impact the media wants to conjure up out of thin air. If anyone would watch the damn games they would know that.
But the media (not the Dallas media mind you, they do a great job) is only interested in talking about Sean Avery and Marty Turco, and this teams struggles are so much greater than that. I have talked very little about him here because he doesn’t matter very often. He’s just a guy out there. Avery stories until today were unwarranted, but…well there you go. He at least gave all of us a good reason this time.
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And what a pair of game we have today and tomorrow now.
It's going to be murder out there. Good Lord, we suck.