Sean Avery Says Don't Sleep On Me Ever Again

NEW YORK (AP) -Sean Avery returned from a one-game benching and scored twice to help the New York Rangers earn a key 3-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday. Avery sat out New York's win at Atlanta on Friday, but returned to the lineup and raised his agitating style to the level coach John Tortorella demanded. He got the Rangers even in the second period and drew three Philadelphia penalties, including two resulting in power plays. The physical play and animosity expected in this game showed up in the second. Avery and Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger were whistled for penalties at 2:09 following a scrum that was sparked by Avery's crunching hit on Matt Carle. Avery then goaded Scott Hartnell into a roughing penalty with 2:30 left in the period. Hartnell grabbed hold of Avery and kept yanking him as Avery turned away. As Hartnell went to the penalty box, Avery yapped at Flyers captain Mike Richards from the bench. Richards skated away, shaking his head.

I feel like I've written the same post like 5 different times. The team and media write Sean Avery off and then he comes back into the lineup with a multiple point night. 2 goals today but that doesn't even do justice to how effective the guy was and how important of a win it turned out to be. He didn't draw 1 penalty or 2, but 3. That means 3 different times he pissed somebody on the Flyers off so bad that they had to do something illegal to shut him up. He was his old self. Yapping up and down the ice, mixing it up after the whistle, giving gang signs to Philly's bench or whatever he does. It was just good to see him back on top. Maybe the benching last game was all some phony motivation ploy but it fucking worked. I guess when you're so good for so long, it's easy to lose focus every now and then and have phases where you go through the motions. It's like those 4 day periods this blog has where it's just videos, nonsense and lazy chatroulette's then someone will say, "hey man, wake the fuck up. I'd rather read about Walden Pond than this shit."