New Rule: No player shall intimate he has had sexual relations with an opposing player's girlfriend.
The NHL has actually suspended the league's squeakiest wheel, Sean Avery, for referring to an unnamed player (obviously Dion Phaneuf) "fall[ing] in love with my sloppy seconds."
Obviously, Avery is a shitheel, but is this really a suspendable offense? There is no way any other player would have been suspended for such an "incident"; of course, it's doubtful that any other player would have made these comments.
In the aftermath of the suspension, Stars owner Tom Hicks decried Avery's comments and stated that, had the league not suspended Avery, the team would have. Also, media reports in Calgary are currently suggesting that Avery's thus-far-disastrous tenure with the Stars is already over after 23 miserable games.
(What the jolly fuck are they going to do with him? He's on a four-year, $15.5M contract with a full no-movement clause! As we warned, brilliant idea there by the commander of the NutzBus. I really hope Hull explicity staked his employment on the Avery signing, 'cause he's already earned a ticket to the soup line.)
If indeed the Stars players don't much like having Avery as a teammate, tonight's game in Calgary will be telling. I wouldn't discount the idea that we'll see a much higher "compete level" from the Stars tonight than we've seen thus far this season.* That might send a message to the front office.
*Yes, it would be virtually impossible for them to show less competitive fire than they've been showing, but maybe we'll see an obvious inprovement.
Regardless of how justified this suspension may be, with just a couple of strokes of a pen, this is what your Dallas Stars have become -- one guy committing various public acts of douchery while 19 other guys stand around rolling their eyes..
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The TSN website "ripped" the following from the Stars' site:
"Had the league not have suspended him, the Dallas Stars would have," Hicks stated. "This organization will not tolerate such behaviour, especially from a member of our hockey team. We hold our team to a higher standard and will continue to do so."
Fuck those Canadian holier-than-thou hockey heads. No way did the Stars site use the word "behaviour." Canadian spell check be damned.
By the way, the Stars, featuring a ineup of several young kids, no Ott, no Morrow, no Zubov and no Lehtinen, has shown CONSIDERABLE more balls and actually played like a Dallas team in a 2-1 game in Calgary.
As they say in Texas, "Hit the trail Avery. This town ain't big enough for the two of us."
Oh ya. And suck a bag o' dicks while you're at it.
And while we're at it, do we need to look at Brad Richards? The Stars have not won 2 regular season games in a row since they got him.
(I heard that on the radio the other day.)
Count me as highly unimpressed with Brad Richards as well. For $7.8M a year, I want better than "won't get you killed."
Can you really suspend someone for talking smack about someone else's girlfriend? That seems dickish but not really suspendable to me.
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