There's a correlation, you know, between not protecting your goaltender when he's run, not avenging your captain when he's concussed, not protecting your all-world scorer when he fights with an opposition enforcer, and lame white flag performances like this that occur regularly.Team character defects that are so glaring do not develop in a vacuum. "You can say it's a lack of preparation, but that's BS; it's a lack of competitiveness," Sean Avery, perhaps the Blueshirts' best player, told The Post. "We do not play hard enough. "I don't have the explanation for it. I don't know if it's us not holding each other accountable, or what, but it's a total lack of respect for our fans and the organization. It's a joke." "It's fine if you get beat," said Avery. "It's fine if you compete and get beat, but to play this way . . . that's not what it's like to be a Ranger."
I had to read that like 3 times to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me. Did Larry Brooks really call Sean Avery the best player on the Rangers? I'm not gonna complain. The bottom line is this. Sean Avery comes to play every night. You don't have to know a ton about hockey to see that. It's evident in watching that guy play on the ice that he busts his ass up and down, from line to line with nothing but heart.
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