Hockeyhead

I’ll admit, the new Sean Avery is pretty good.  He keeps his mouth shut off the ice, and isn’t forcing the NHL into making up new rules based on his sometimes erratic on-ice behaviour.  He did his job again on Monday night by making his presence felt on the physical side and adding an assist, but more importantly, his team walked away with a 3-0 victory over the slumping New Jersey Devils.  It marked the first time that Martin Brodeur and Sean Avery faced each other this season, not that we should really give a fuck… but here I am blogging about it.

The Devils’ David Clarkson was working on Avery late in the third period trying to get him to drop the gloves.  Avery wisely skated away and actually drew a double minor after Clarkson knocked him to the ice face first.  Avery picked up a single 2-minutes for roughing, and Clarkson was handed a misconduct on top of the double for roughing.  That Avery, so agitating.  Avery on why he didn’t choose to dance with Clarkson:

It’s a 3-0 game at that point, I don’t think that there’s anything to gain by doing anything,” Avery said. “It certainly takes discipline for sure. You fight for your team and for your teammates. At that point I didn’t need to fight for either of them.”