Once again the NHL’s big mouth heavyweight decided to say something stupid… as usual. 

Ever since his first days as a rookie with the Detroit Red Wings in 2002 Sean Avery has been known as an agitator and the proprietor of a rather large and obnoxious mouth.

In his first 75 NHL games Avery spent 188 minutes in the penalty box. Tuesday Avery decided to talk to the Calgary media, the topic was not hockey, not the game that him and his Dallas Stars team mates would be playing against the Calgary Flames, but how “it has become a common thing for guys in the league to fall in love with my sloppy seconds.”

Those “sloppy seconds” that Avery was referring to is Canadian actress Elisha Cuthbert, his ex-girlfriend and the current girlfriend of Calgary Flames defense-man, Dion Phaneuf.  The NHL suspended Avery indefinitely and scheduled a hearing with league commissioner Gary Bettman for Thursday at noon ET.

The suspension comes as no surprise since Avery has eluded NHL suspension multiple times before. In 2005 he made comments about French Canadian players who wear visors after being hit by Denis Gauthier. "I think it was typical of most French guys in our league with a visor on, running around and playing tough and not back anything up," Avery received no punishment for this comment. During the warm up in a 2007 game against the Leafs Avery got into an altercation with Darcy Tucker and was fined 2,500$.

In 2008 Avery waves his hand in front of New Jersey goaltender Martin Brodeur to cause a distraction during a Rangers vs Devils playoff series, forcing the NHL to invoke a new rule making Avery's tactic illegal. That was the shortened list, every time he has gotten off lightly, now it seems that the NHL has had enough, after Avery called out Bettman and his NHL hierarchy, personally calling the league “a joke,” just a few months ago and now the “sloppy seconds” incident.

Finally the “its just Sean,” excuse has been overused and the NHL are not the only ones who think so. “Sean crossed the line,” Dallas Stars head coach Dave Tippett said. “We’ve always professed that there is nobody bigger than this team. My job is to build a team; I do not think I can build a team if Sean came back into that dressing room.”

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