Sean Avery Deal Foreshadows Trade Deadline Insanity

The clock is ticking for Sean Avery and I can hardly stand it! The Dallas Stars put him on waivers at high noon and the rest of the league has 24 hours to ruin the Rangers plan for a reunion.

Everybody's predicting Avery will be back in Blue in time for the Rangers game against the Islanders, on Thursday. I keep checking Google news to see if the Islanders or Toronto or somebody has wrecked the Rangers plot to get Avery at half price.

The New York News has already picked Avery's first five fights for him, predicting he'll clash with the coach, the back up goalie, a MSG announcer, and—of course—Martin Brodeur. The Rangers play the Devils March 30.

The Rangers hope Avery can turn their season around, the way he did two years ago. Of course, they had Jagr, Straka, and Shanahan, back then. However, since Tortorella took over, the Rangers have out-shot the competition, 103-70.

The Sporting News predicts it will be a win-win situation for Avery. Eric McErian stated that "If the team reverses its current fortunes with Avery in the lineup, he'll inevitably get more than his fair share of the credit.

"If it doesn't, then everyone will simply conclude that the season was lost anyway thanks to an ill-conceived roster that was put together by Sather."

Either way, he says, Avery wins.

There is a good chance there will be only one claim—the New York Rangers’—and that is how the Rangers and Avery want this to play out, AP reports,  but there are 17 teams that can mess up that scheme.

I've been following this story intensively for the past month. It's the best story in the NHL this year, I'd say. And I've been following Sean Avery's hockey career since he played Jr. A for the Owen Sound Platers of the OHL with Dan Snyder, Adam Maier, Andrew Brunette, and Jamie Storr—that was quite a team!

I don't think the New York Islanders will take him, even though it would drive their rivals crazy, because Avery and the Islanders GM Chris Botta got in a yelling match a while ago.

I don't think Ottawa will take him. They had trouble with Ray Emery, and look where he wound up.

I'd like to see Toronto take him, in a way, so he could shake up the team nick-named "the pension plan puppets." It's his home team, after all.

Avery made fun of Edmonton's weather, the last time he was there, and Edmontonians don't think that sort of thing is funny.

He's already played for the Los Angeles Kings. He liked Hollywood. But Jack Bauer might track him down and torture him for dating his daughter.

Now that Darcy Tucker plays for the Colorado Avalanche, I don't think they'd want Avery. Those two guys just don't seem to play well together, if you know what I mean.
He could go from the Hartford Wolf Pack to the Phoenix Coyotes. They could use a guy like him.

Pittsburgh is my second choice, after the Rangers. I'd like to see him on a line with Crosby and Kunitz. Crosby could turn him into a 30-goal scorer.

The Anaheim Ducks are a cantankerous team, so he might fin in there. He's already played with Getzlaf and Parey, when they were all with the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks.
There's still Atlanta, Tampa Bay, St. Louis, Nashville, Minnesota, Carolina, Columbus, Buffalo to worry about. A player like Avery could help them all out, but I don't think Avery would want to help out any of them.

I'd say Avery belongs in New York. It's a great fit. I love watching the guy from Owen Sound showing the Rangers how to play like New Yorkers.