The NHL is lame
Dec/080
I am not the biggest hockey guy in the world. I like hockey, I just don’t watch it. Now when someone does something that makes me perk my ears up and say “Oh, yeah, hockey” the NHL goes and suspends them. Of course.
The Stars’ super-pest is being suspended for disparaging remarks he made this morning in reference to Flames defenceman Dion Phaneuf and Phaneuf’s girlfriend, actress Elisha Cuthbert, who previously had a relationship with Avery.
“I am really happy to be back in Calgary, I love Canada,” Avery said on camera this morning in Calgary. “I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don’t know what that’s about. Enjoy the game tonight.”
Cuthbert has also been romantically linked to Canadiens defenceman Mike Komisarek, while Avery also dated model and actress Rachel Hunter, the girlfriend of Kings centre Jarrett Stoll.
I’m sorry, is trash talk not allowed in hockey? That’s FUNNY and we’re playing hockey here, there’s a good chance someone was going to punch him in the face for saying this. Instead, not only did he get suspended for this (not fined, suspended) he got suspended indefinitely pending a hearing.
Avery’s hearing will take place in accordance with the NHL Constitution, for conduct “detrimental to the League or game of hockey,” the NHL announced.
Really? I think Sean Avery dating Elisha Cuthbert in the first place was the exact opposite of detrimental to the league. Surely, he earned up some good will with that. The guy interned at Vogue over the summer, he’s done more to get people to pay attention to the NHL than Versus ever has.
My favorite has to be this line from TSN Hockey expert Bob McKenzie:
“First is his specific choice of words, two words to be precise, ’sloppy seconds’. It’s vulgar, the imagery is not good and in the mind of the National Hockey League, it’s misogynistic, shows a lack of respect and objectifies women, in this case Elisha Cuthbert, his former girlfriend and current girlfriend of Flames’ defenceman Dion Phaneuf. If he’d said ex-girlfriends, we wouldn’t be talking about this.”
In the same week we find out that hockey players are no strangers to group sex, we also find out that “sloppy seconds” is crossing a line? Really? Chad Johnson says more offensive stuff than that in his sleep. The NHL needs to just stop trying to look important, stop trying to look professional and just be what it is. People get their throats slashed in the NHL, it’s never going to be fun for the whole family. Deal with it.
