Sean Avery
Sean Avery, the feisty forward for the New York Rangers, is evidently into fashion. According to ABC News, Avery, 28, is taking an unpaid internship at Vogue magazine.1
Avery stands at an unimpressive 5-9, but don?t judge this bad boy on the basis on his height ? Avery has a mean streak and can scrap. Sean’s one of those hybrid players that has a nice offensive game,Click Here to Join For Outlooks on All Players!2
Midway through the 2002-03 season, the Los Angeles Kings traded Mathieu Schneider to the Detroit Red Wings for Avery, Maxim Kuznetsov, a first round selection (Jeff Tambellini) in 2003 and a second round selection in 2004. Sean finished the season with 15 points in 51 games.3
Avery is widely known as the most annoying jerk in professional sports. Recently the NHL created the “Sean Avery rule” to forbid one of his recent tactics: waving his hands in front of the goaltender’s face, without touching, kind of like what you used to do to your little brother when you were six.4
When the Rangers stuck Sean Avery in front of Martin Brodeur on Sunday afternoon, they probably never imagined that he would go to such lengths to attempt to distract the New Jersey netminder. Yet there he was, waving and ranting and raving like a man possessed.5
Weighing in on the controversy surrounding Martin Brodeur snubbing Sean Avery in the handshake line at the end of the Devils/Rangers series. Was Martin being classless as some have declared, or did Avery have it coming after all of his antics throughout the series?6