NHL Playoffs: Why I Love Avery and Ovechkin

Avery sucks, you forgot to add how he is a tool, but since Tortella plays him it makes him a bigger tool

Did you see Tortella's face when Avery got caught high sticking towards the end of the game.

I am sorry but I have nothing nice to say about Avery except I am glad the Wings got rid of him when we did.

Tortella is a goof, first he punchs the dude and goes to the sinbin then he comes out and hits the guy with his stick......as a coach it was a dumb move but they still won......and I guess thats all what counts

The biggest hypocrisy is that if Avery was on your team you would be defending him whining about the NHL mistreatment of him. Avery is the player people love to hate IF he is not on your team, that is exactly what he wants from you and you folks fall for it hook line and sinker.

The Sean Avery cash register is thanking you for stopping by because you focus on him.

That is why NBC zeroes in on him

That is why Versus zeroes in on him

Avery is the perfect villain, you will keep watching, you will keep talking about him because you want to see him fail.

Who is the tool now?

There's a big difference between being a pest and drawing penalties and being Sean Avery. He's lucky to be playing with a team that can kill his penalties which you have to admit are a little dumb especially when your only up one goal and you take 2 stupid penalties, If he were on my team I would be routing for a different team. Its kinda suiting that he plays for the Rangers

I guess it must be you Prospect Park.......you are your own self fulfilling prophecy.
Sure there is a place for fighting in the NHL, always has and probably always will....but thuggery is soon to be ruled out. You want that, go to an AHL game.
Montreal learned George LaRoque was and is a waste of skates 0-4 and here comes Summer.
Avery will wear out his welcome, and he too will become irrelevant. Funny thing is it appears the Rangers next opponent will be the Bruins. Where he will try to agitate, but won't succeed. He will succeed in having his lunch handed to him however while playing against Boston.

He won't succeed? Let's go back to the last regular season meeting between the Bruins and Rangers. During a tv stoppage, Avery smacked Bruins netminder Tim Thomas in the back of the head with his stick. Thomas chased Avery to center ice and proceeded to attack him. Thomas and Avery were each given matching minors. Tim Thomas likes to pull a Billy Smith on occasion, which Bruins coach Claude Julien would prefer not to happen.

After the matching minors, Marc Savard took a penalty giving the Rangers a man-advantage. Avery's love tap to Thomas's noggin altered the dynamic of the game. The Bruins killed the man-advantage and went on to win the game, but Avery's shenanigans gave the Rangers a second life.

You're talking regular season vs. playoff's. Two very distinct and different games. Two ref's watching it all, and if what I've been watching is the way it will go, they're calling a very tight game. I would bet word came down from the NHL office that B.S. will not be tolerated. Foolishness will get majors and match penalties.
And as you mentioned, the Rangers lost that game!

These are the playoffs a totally different hockey, I guarantee as soon as Avery gets close to Thomas he'll get pushed out. I think almost everyone has figured this guy out he tried to agitate but is just as easy to agitate. When he did the second most clowny thing hes done in the NHL to Thomas, I didn't see Thomas attack him I saw him skate after him and saw Avery do his patent Turtle and plead the victim. I dont doubt that he can effect the outcome of the game with his antics, I think ever one has figured this guy out and its just a matter of time before his number gets drawn since the entire league is looking for it.

Let's face it, Avery is the true villian on the ice, but the game has always had players like this who get under the skin of the opposing team. If he can throw those opponents off their game, then he is doing his job. Now that said, even as a long time Ranger fan, I agree he is a dirty player. But have you noticed that when he does these things their are not many players lining up to take him on. So if these opponents don't like it, then they should do something about it. If they don't then he will continue to do what he does and succeed in getting into the heads of these players. My problem with him is taking stupid penalties in close games.

That's precisely why he will become irrelavent, especially to his own team. Playing the Bruins, whose powerplay is scorching right now, the Rangers can little afford his 3 or 4 minor penalties a game. Want to see what team means, let him try that stupidity with Savard, or Bergeron and the Bruins will eat him up. And that's not a threat, it's a reality.
Just look at the expression on his coaches face in the video. Sorry, no coach hoping to make it to the next round will put up with that. The saddest part of this whole thing is Avery is a good hockey player, and is probably more valuable to the Rangers on the ice than sitting in the penalty box.
Montreal tried hard to get to the Bruins...it obviously didn't work.....and now summer in Montreal is around the corner.

You make valid points Dave, but I think he will have the riot act read to him about taking stupid penalties in close games. The Rangers need to reel in that part of his game. I just hope he uses his talent to score and check players off their skates and stop all the dumb penalties.

It apparently is catching up to him...with a did not play last night.....I don't know if that was a league thing or the Rangers said "enough".
But the Rangers also lost 4-0.

Torts pulls an Avery.....