Hockeyhead

If you check in here often, or at all, then it’s likely that you know how I feel about Sidney Crosby and Sean Avery.  Throw Alex Burrows‘ name into the mix and you have my three current favourites from the NHL.  Peel back the NHL’s aggressive “Sidney Crosby Never Stops” campaign (that’s true though, look it up, it’s science) and you could argue that those three guys may be the most agitating players in the game.  I’m not going to argue that Crosby would be better off with a little less conversation, but he’s certainly making an effort to change public perception of his action as of late.

Normally when a star player gets flipped by opposing player, it’s the enforcer that comes to the rescue.  As we saw during yesterday’s Pittsburgh and Florida game, when superstar Evgeni Malkin gets smoked, it’s the teams other superstar that comes to the rescue.  Sure, Crosby probably sparked Florida to victory, but unless you just hate the kid on principle then you kinda have to admire the balls he displayed in going after Keith Ballard.  The hit was clean, but even Ballard said he expected to fight after sending Malkin flying over his back.   In case you live under a rock, or can’t pay your cable bills:

Avery Being Avery

I played hockey in my youth.  I wasn’t great, but one of my proudest moments was dropping the gloves with a slash-happy goalie.   Sean Avery’s love-tap to the back of Tim Thomas was a little bit petty, but pretty fucking funny as well.  I’m with Stoeten on this one, does Tim Thomas really need the entire hockey media world to stick up for him?   Avery is a shit-bag, always was, always will be.  That’s why I love him, because he’s an arrogant, irritating, self-serving asshole.