Sean Avery made headlines around the world when it was finally announced the New York Rangers reclaimed him off re-entry waivers, 24 hours after the Dallas Stars gave most of the other teams in the NHL a chance to take him.
Some say the New York Rangers should not have reclaimed Sean Avery from re-entry waivers—but only because they never should have let him go.
For the Rangers' opponents, Avery's return plays more like Chucky's Back than Micky Rourke in The Wrestler, or Al Gore, Bill Clinton as The Comeback Kid, never mind NFL quarterbacks Joe Montana and Peyton Manning.
Avery's return to the NHL made headlines around the world today as he is a celebrity who has crossed over from the world of hockey into the worlds of high fashion and Hollywood movies.
"Hockey hunk Sean Avery is finally making his return to the ice after punishment for "inappropriate comments" regarding ex-girlfriend Elisha Cuthbert," Perez Hilton gushed on PerezHilton.com, the celebrity blog site covering news and rumors of Hollywood stars.
Avery was suspended for six games and ordered to receive anger-management counseling by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman following on-camera remarks he on Dec. 2. Many fans said the punishment did not fit the crime, especially when compared to lighter sentences for other players who delivered concussion-causing hits or elbow smashes to the head in an apparent attempt to injure.
Avery played only 23 games in a Stars' uniform with 10 points and 77 penalty minutes. Reportedly, he never meshed with his new teammates. "In a sport that venerates mullets and missing teeth, he is simultaneously one of the NHL's dirtiest goons and a modern metrosexual boasting good looks, a fashion fetish, homosexual friends and orchestrated ambiguity," Richard Whitt wrote in the Dallas Observer. "While his macho peers spent last summer fishin' and golfin', he interned at Vogue."
After being kicked off the Dallas Stars, Avery graduated from anger management and found himself playing in the AHL for the Hartford Wolf Pack. He will now rejoin the Rangers in New York for Wednesday's practice and make his debut with the Broadway Blueshirts on Thursday. It will be his first time playing for the NHL since November.
"Sean Avery returns to Rangers; cover your ears (and eyes)" was the headline in the L.A. Times. "Former Rangers starter Sean Avery has returned to the Blue Shirts" said NY1.
New York and Dallas will split the remainder of Avery's contract, so Rangers GM Glen Sather just got a star for half price.
Today's sports headlines reflected the fact Avery is a hockey villain people love to hate. NHL players voted him "most hated player" at the same time People magazine included him in their list of "Sexiest Men Alive", along with Matt Damon, Patrick Dempsey, Johnny Depp,Will Smith, and Brad Pitt.
Rangers Ready To Embrace Avery, read the headline in the New York Daily News. Avery takes his act back to Broadway" was the AFP headline.
He recently joined the list of celebrities who do Gap ads.
He was in Vogue last summer as a celebrity intern and became guest editor of Men's Vogue, which has since folded. A column he wrote like a journal on his experience at Vogue has inspired a movie, now in the works, by New Line Cinema.
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