Sean Avery is The Reason The New York Rangers Are Worth Talking About

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Here's a riddle for you... How do you get overpaid, underachieving Americans... A Russian who doesn't know what giving 100 percent feels like and a defensive group who still has yet to be taught how to make a breakout pass to play like all-stars?

Bring in the biggest “cancer” in hockey who has proclaimed that he is one with himself. I mean, bring in the biggest game changer that you won’t always see in the scorers box, but will have a impact on the game that is only matched by the elite scorers in the game.

What does this mean for that slacking group of veterans? A slacking group of veterans scared out of their mind that they just might be called out.

Around the start of free agency, the Dallas Stars signed a player who everyone thought would push their team over the top. He was suppose to team up with Steve Ott to create the most diabolical and hated tag team of all time. These two guys were supposed to be targeted players league wide.

Unfortunately for them Marty Turco forgot how to stop pucks. Mike Modano's age finally started to show—but who is going to tell him that?

Brendan Morrow went down with an injury and people started to realize that Fabian Brunnstrom was not all he was made out to be. Brett Hull, who can we blame this on!?

Suddenly, Sean Avery calls over some news cameras and says something so horrible, so disturbing and so volatile that it made grown men cringe. Children began to scream out for their mothers and mothers ran for the soap to clean out his mouth!

He said, forgive me… sloppy seconds.

Now jumping back into reality and looking at what happened, I have a question: How did you respond?

Me? I simply laughed and began counting down the seconds until puck drop where I should have seen Dion Phanuef deal with Sean Avery in such a manner that sports center would be showing on their Year in Review show.

However, good old Gary Bettman decided to suspend him indefinitely; the Stars turned on him and blamed their troubles on him and through him under the bus. (Dear Dallas, it didn’t work—you still are out of the playoffs… looks like you might have to blame those veterans listed above).

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