Sean Avery Returns To Stars Wars: A Very Scary Movie Sequel

Rumour has it that, after anger management, Sean Avery plans to begin skating solo—and the Dallas Stars are revisiting their options on what to do with him.

The Stars banished Avery shortly after his six-game suspension by the NHL, but it appears the gritty winger has not given up on playing this season, and perhaps the Stars have not given up on him either.

Sportsnet reports that Avery plans to begin skating on his own, without his team in the next week or so while he continues to receive counseling.

Avery hasn''t stepped onto the ice since December when the league suspended him six games for making inappropriate comments to the media just before a game in Calgary against the Flames.

The Stars were in last place at the time Avery was suspended, but have climbed back into play-off contention.

Avery, like the Stars, was off to a sluggish start. Dallas has gone 15-7-3 without Avery. Although some have made Avery the scapegoat, others put the blame on illness and inexperience in the first half of the season.

Avery's performance largely mirrored the Stars' sluggish early performance. In 23 games, he scored three goals, had seven assists, plus 49 shots on goal, and a league-leading 77 minutes in penalties before he and the team parted ways due to controversial remarks about fellow NHL players.

During a morning skate in Calgary, Avery approached a camera and reporters to make a comment about Flames defenseman Dion Phaneuf dating actress Elisha Cuthbert, Avery's former girlfriend.

Avery released a written apology, saying he recognized his comments were inappropriate.

In his defence, he said it was a bad attempt to build excitement for the game.

He apologized for offending the fans of the NHL, the commissioner, his teammates, the coaching staff, and the Dallas Stars management and ownership.

At the time, Stars coach Dave Tippett didn't want Avery to return to the club.

Before joining the Stars, Avery was a hit in New York with the Rangers, causing controversy that led to "The Avery Rule". Before that, he led the league in penalties for a couple of years with the L.A. Kings.

Prior to playing for the Kings, Avery earned a walk-on job with the Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings, after going undrafted after playing for the Kingston Frontenacs and the Owen Sound Platers in the Ontario Hockey League.

Avery's success in the role of agent provocateur, distracting other players, made him one of the most reviled players in the league. Hockey hell-raiser Sean Avery became the league's most notorious agitator. NHL players voted him the most hated player around the same time People magazine included him in their list for "Sexiest Man Alive".

After his second season with the New York Rangers, Avery spent a summer as an intern with Vogue. He wound up as guest editor for Men's Vogue, where he wrote about his love of fashion, contributed to a magazine piece criticising the worst uniforms in sports history, and was photographed in the closet surrounded by designer clothing.

After all that, there were reports of Avery not fitting in when he joined the Stars in Dallas, for some reason.

While in New York and L.A., Avery was romantically linked to Elisha Cuthbert, who plays Jack Bauer's daughter on 24, and to Playboy and Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Rachel Hunter.

Gossip columnists linked Avery, 28, with then-Calvin Klein's ex, Kitty.

Avery’s “double life” of being a professional hockey player while having a strong interest in fashion inspired New Line Cinema to commission a screenplay based on the life and times of Sean Avery. Reports suggest it will be a chick flick focusing on his time at Men's Vogue.

The question remains: Will the sequel to the Avery saga be like Anger Management, Part Two, or will it be more like The Return Of Tarzan, The King, The Jedi, or The Living Dead?

In The Return Of The King, the final film in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Frodo and Sam approach Mount Doom for the final battle for Middle Earth and there is a lot of slashing and hacking.

In ''Return of the Jedi,'' the climactic film in George Lucas's space-fantasy trilogy that began with ''Star Wars'', the Rebel Alliance rescues Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt. Meanwhile, the Galactic Empire plans to crush the Rebel Alliance with a second Death Star. Luke confronts his father, Darth Vader, in a climactic duel before the evil Emperor Palpatine.

In The Return of the Living Dead, zombies look for brains to eat.

In Anger Management, Adam Sandler gets jerked around by Jack Nicholson, but Sandler gets the last laugh.

Will the return of Avery be a hit or will it be like the return of The Spice Girls? Weary hobbits await. May the force be with you.

P.S. I am not his father.