Around the league (signings, RFAs injuries)

[Hockey Widow]

Hey Minny is buying out Matt Cooke.......JK, JK, JK no really they are buying him out JK about him coming here. Time for Matt to retire.

He's no Matt Pettinger that's for sure...

LOL

For sure.

[Tciso]

Hey Minny is buying out Matt Cooke.......JK, JK, JK no really they are buying him out JK about him coming here. Time for Matt to retire.

Good for him. He was always a 3rd liner who played tough (and a bit dirty), but, he has had a great career for a "plugger". I wish I'd been paid almost $21 million before I turned 37.

[Todd Bersnoozi]

Interesting article about life after hockey and transition to real life by former NHLer Sean Avery. You get to see the human side of it all under all the glitz and glamour.

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/sean-a ... er-hockey/

[Blob Mckenzie]

Hey Minny is buying out Matt Cooke.......JK, JK, JK no really they are buying him out JK about him coming here. Time for Matt to retire.

Good for him. He was always a 3rd liner who played tough (and a bit dirty), but, he has had a great career for a "plugger". I wish I'd been paid almost $21 million before I turned 37.

He played tough ?




Yeah no he didn't . He was a shit weasel

[Meds]

Interesting article about life after hockey and transition to real life by former NHLer Sean Avery. You get to see the human side of it all under all the glitz and glamour.

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/sean-a ... er-hockey/

Avery always was smarter than your average NHL'er. His antics, quick wit, and ingenuity as a pest, were proof of that.

I wonder how many hockey players don't get things figured out as quickly as he seems to have done?

[Hockey Widow]

Good article. He should write a book. Would probably be better than most that have been written by ex players.

[Strangelove]

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Avery is pathological, I can't believe folks are falling for this rubbish.

I handled the pressure partly by inventing a character — the tough, ornery Sean Avery that you think you know — and I’d put his game face on before I left for the rink, and I’d take it off when I got home. It was my way of handling all the demands on us to win. And to keep my job. I needed people to hate me. I needed players to come after me in order to stay motivated

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!

The "character he invented" is this brand new one.

The old character was the real Sean Avery!

... ask his teammates in Dallas and New York!!

(you know, the ones who had him kicked off those teams)

"I'm not the psychocunt everyone in the entire Hockey World thinks I am"

Next he'll try to sell you a bridge.... or a book.

[Strangelove]

He played tough ?


Yeah no he didn't . He was a shit weasel

From Day One... Blob's opinion of Matt Cooke has never wavered.

[Todd Bersnoozi]

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Avery is pathological, I can't believe folks are falling for this rubbish.

I handled the pressure partly by inventing a character — the tough, ornery Sean Avery that you think you know — and I’d put his game face on before I left for the rink, and I’d take it off when I got home. It was my way of handling all the demands on us to win. And to keep my job. I needed people to hate me. I needed players to come after me in order to stay motivated

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!

The "character he invented" is this brand new one.

The old character was the real Sean Avery!

... ask his teammates in Dallas and New York!!

(you know, the ones who had him kicked off those teams)

"I'm not the psychocunt everyone in the entire Hockey World thinks I am"

Next he'll try to sell you a bridge.... or a book.

Well, a lot of ppl on this board seem to invent a character, guys in hollywood probably do the same thing. It's probably more common than u think.

Maybe instead of the NHL, Avery should of went to the WWE. Might of made a hell a lot of more money. But then again, he's only 35, which is pretty young for a wrestler. He could make a former hockey player type character like the hanson bros or something. GM would luv him!

[Topper]

Avery interned at Vogue and now works for an ad agency. Not that there is any thing wrong with that.

Ooooooh the cookie monster made the boards go boom. Because his hits were always late.

[BladesofSteel]

Hey Minny is buying out Matt Cooke.......JK, JK, JK no really they are buying him out JK about him coming here. Time for Matt to retire.

Good for him. He was always a 3rd liner who played tough (and a bit dirty), but, he has had a great career for a "plugger". I wish I'd been paid almost $21 million before I turned 37.

He played tough ?




Yeah no he didn't . He was a shit weasel

How can you say that? Did you not see how he absolutely pummelled Steve Moore, essentially ending his career!?!

Oh, wait. No thats not right. Moore tuned Cooke up.

[Hockey Widow]

Jim Hughson put on suicide watch. The reason?

18 year old Sam Bennet turned 19 today. Doctor's say he just needs time to adjust to this change and he is expected to make a full recovery.

[Hockey Widow]

Flames sign Backlund, 3 years at 3.575 per. I think a tad high but coming from a team that just re-signed Sbisa....I'll let it slid.

[Chef Boi RD]

Flames sign Backlund, 3 years at 3.575 per. I think a tad high but coming from a team that just re-signed Sbisa....I'll let it slid.

Big fan of Backlund, I wish he was a Nuck. Good signing by the Flames, future core player on the team, plays a gritty 200 ft game

[Strangelove]

Well, a lot of ppl on this board seem to invent a character, guys in hollywood probably do the same thing. It's probably more common than u think.

True story, a long time ago, on a fucking canuck message board far far away...

Someone created a character named "Magic 40"!

Magic 40 was a teenager who was related to then-Canuck Pavol Demitra (RIP).

Magic 40 posted in a very thick Slovakia accent.

Magic 40's inside scoop was that Demitra's buddy UFA Marian Gaborik had agreed to purchase a house in N Van!

LOL Canuckdom lapped that right up, even some local hockey writer took that story and ran with it!

So yeah... fucking character creators!

Maybe instead of the NHL, Avery should of went to the WWE. Might of made a hell a lot of more money. But then again, he's only 35, which is pretty young for a wrestler. He could make a former hockey player type character like the hanson bros or something. GM would luv him!

Yeahno, WWE guys crap bigger than p.o.s. Sean Avery!

And WWE guys are actors who are sane enough to follow a script.

Sean Avery, NOT:

http://pagesix.com/2014/11/04/sean-aver ... 1341741924

Former NY Ranger Sean Avery had a Shia LaBeouf-style meltdown on the set of his off-Broadway play “Negative Is Positive” and quit two days before it was due to open, after a stage manager politely offered him pizza.

“He’s a playwright’s worst nightmare,” said “Negative” author Christy Smith-Sloman.

The show, which opens at Theater for the New City on Thursday, centers on an interracial married couple, and Avery was to play the lead character’s best friend.

On Monday, Avery left rehearsals early after growing agitated. On Tuesday, Avery’s behavior grew worse. According to Smith-Sloman, when a young assistant stage manager named Natalie asked the athlete-turned-actor if he wanted a slice of pizza, he said no, but somehow thought the assistant had called him an “a–hole.”

“He said I was ‘talking s–t’ and said I was ‘so full of s–t,'” Natalie, who was left in tears, told us. “That’s when I realized that I was dealing with a madman.”

Next, director Andreas Robertz said Avery told him, “Don’t you know who I am?!” and stormed out. “I think something snapped in him,” said Robertz.

“It’s a complete horror story … Avery had a complete meltdown in rehearsals and quit. He pretty much snapped,” Smith-Sloman told Page Six.

The playwright said she does not want hot-tempered Avery back. “It’s unbelievable he would do this two days before we open. At this point I don’t want him to be a part of this production. He can’t call people pieces of s–t and say, ‘Do you know who I am?’ [He] can’t threaten people.”

An understudy will replace Avery, who didn’t return our calls for comment.

Yeah, you should have known better than to have fallen for Avery's article there Todd.