Sean Avery 2.0: New and Improved Star Starts His Comeback

The new Sean Avery is an improved version of the old Avery, after anger management, indefinite suspension from the NHL, The Avery Rule, the Devils, Rangers, Kings, and Red Wings.

The new Avery is in the AHL. The old Avery came from the OHL.

The new Avery sounds like Deepak Chopra on skates, they say. The old Avery sounded like a deleted scene from Slapshot or The Love Guru.

The new Avery hasn't dropped his gloves, yet, in the first four games of his comeback. The old Avery took on the trash talking instigators and enforcers on every team in the NHL, even if they were eight inches taller and twenty pounds heavier, like Dion Phaneuf. He'd take on anyone.

Avery 2.0 is called The New Avery. The Old Avery was called Superpest, No. 1 Bad Boy, Top Ten Trash Talker, Most Hated Hockey Player In The NHL, clotheshorse, Vogue intern, et cetera.

The old Avery dated Cuthbert, Hunter, Lake, Klein, and others, was i n the New York Post all the time, People magazine called him one of the sexiest men alive, he was guest editor of Men's Vogue...The New Avery lives like a monk, apparently.

The Old Avery was called cancer in the locker rooms. Avery 2.0 cured cancer in the locker room, apparently.

The Old Avery sparked a talent-laden but lustreless New York Rangers team to life to beat the Devils in the Playoffs. Avery 2.0 is expected to lean an underachieving Rangers team to playoff success of the Washington Capitals with Alexander Ovechkin.

Old Avery played with Jagr and Shanny. Avery 2.0 gets Gomez, Drury, and Redden.

Even the New Yorker covered Old Avery's antics. Avery 2.0 is covered by the Hartford Courant as he plays his way back into game shape in the AHL.

The Old Avery's story was about an undrafted OHL player who caught on with the Red Wings as the won the Stanley Cup, led the league in penalties for a couple of years with the L.A. Kings, and turned into the spine, the spirit, the spleen of the Rangers.

Avery 2.0 is one of those sports comeback stories we all love, like Claude Lemieux's.