Searching for Sean Avery: Blackhawks talk Avery

This Daily Herald article showed up in my email yesterday concerning tonight's game in Chicago. It's about the Blackhawks' plan to ignore Sean Avery.

Sean who? That's the approach the Blackhawks plan to take Friday night when Sean Avery and the Dallas Stars visit the United Center. Avery has become one of the most controversial players in the NHL, and that might be too nice a description of him. Opponents call him worse things, and have been doing so for years. Avery is an instigator and agitator, a yapper and chirper who has been known to deliver the cheap shot. The Hawks saw Avery at his worst during the preseason when he jumped Ben Eager from behind and began punching him. Avery then taunted Eager near the bench, and when Eager swung his stick at Avery, he received a match penalty and was later suspended for the first three games of the season. "He's always out there doing something to get attention, but you just ignore him and play the way you have to play," Eager said. "You just ignore him and don't pay attention to him."

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