Sean Avery's Return with New York Rangers Gets One Bad Review and Many Raves

Despite earning rave reviews for his return to Broadway with the New York Rangers, the longest running hit series in New York City, Sean Avery got one bad review in Wisconsin.

"The NHL’s piece of the broadcast television pie is so small that you’d hope the league would think hard about who and what it promotes during precious air time," an unsigned article said in the LaCrosse Tribune.

"Instead, Sunday afternoon’s Rangers-Bruins game on NBC turned into a celebration of unapologetic thug Sean Avery."

Avery did, in fact, apologize to everybody for the comment he made that got him suspended from the NHL.

The LaCrosse article complained that NBC announcers Mike Emerick, Mike Milbury, and Pierre McGuire treated Avery "like royalty."

NBC even followed Avery around the rink with its star cam and promoted him as the main attraction of next week’s Rangers-Flyers broadcast, the Wisconsin writer complained.

"Hopefully by that time, Avery will either be serving another suspension or unable to dress for the game with a severe case of foot-in-mouth."

After an off-Broadway comeback in the AHL, Avery finally made his way back to Broadway with the New York Rangers and got a hot welcome from Rangers fans at Madison Square Garden, from the New York Media, and reporters all over the hockey world.

The New York Times, New York Post, New York Observer, New York Daily News, and Newsday all reported on Avery's returns to  MSG as a Ranger, the tumultuous welcome he got from Blueshirts fans chanting his name, and how the energy he added to the game helped the struggling New York team upset the league-leading Boston Bruins.

Avery got the same sort of reviews from the Washington Post, USA Today, and the International Herald Tribune and Metro International, as well as NHL.com, not to mention the Hartford Courant.