Several sources reported that there was an unpleasant and almost physical altercation last night between Sean Avery and MSG’s John Giannone after the first period of the Rangers vs Dallas game. John Giannone is not commenting about it today. Sean Avery did not comment about it in his post game interview with Stan Fischler. I can understand Giannone wanting to be sotto voce about the incident. He didn’t want to tell tales out of school. 

John Giannnone is a genuine person and a decent guy. Giannone is all about supporting the Rangers. Maybe Giannone called Avery out about the crap Avery was talking to stir it up with Valliquette and Dubinsky by the red line during the warm up. I could see something was going on but I couldn’t hear it. I do not know what caused the altercation with Giannone but I would give the benefit of the doubt to John in a heartbeat

What I do not understand is how Sean Avery can claim in his interview with Fischler that, and I paraphrase, he loved playing in NewYork, he admires the Rangers organization and Jim Dolan, he thinks the fans are the best in the NHL, he can foresee himself back in a Ranger uniform someday, yada, yada, yada. Please.

This is the same guy who made disparaging remarks about the Rangers after signing with Dallas. Now, he comes back into our building, thrash talking about his ex-teamates and causing problems with John Giannone. Then, after the game, Avery is making all kissy face with Fischler in his post game interview.

I watched the interview and I must say that rather then working in the fashion industry, this guy should play himself in his own bio-pic. Either Avery is a good actor or he has a multiple personality disorder, hence the Three Faces of Avery title. He’s not two faced, he’s three faced. 

Avery is neither a great hockey player nor a great actor. Avery is a self-aggrandizing attention whore. All the nonsense about his self-imposed moratorium regarding interviews was just another of his media manipulations. Avery’s play really had no effect on the outcome of this game. He had to run his mouth and cause bad feeling in order to garner a greater share of attention.

Sean Avery deserves to rot in a social and cultural backwater like Dallas. He could have played for the New York Rangers, in front of the Garden Faithful, in the greatest city in the world. He chose not to. I hate to beat a dead horse but Avery made his bed with Sather when he took the Rangers to arbitration in 2007. The Rangers are well shod of him. I, for one, never want to see him back in Broadway Blue.

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