The Snub

I want to clear something up that is driving me nuts that happened on Friday at the New York Rangers v. New Jersey Devils Round 1: Game 5.

It's quite ironic, really. I was standing in the New York Rangers' locker room after the Rangers defeated the New Jersey Devils 5-3 on Friday night, ending the series between the division rivals in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. With my notebook in hand, I was writing down a few quotes from Henrik Lundqvist, when I looked behind me to see a rather large crowd of reporters standing around someone, so I gravitated to the back of the locker room to see who they were interviewing.

The first thing I saw were tattoos on a bare arm of a man. I looked to see if I could see in between the heads of the other reporters and got a glimpse of an eye and then a chest. Based on the tattoos, I knew the person causing all the attention was none other than Sean Avery.

As I stood there listening to him talk about the Martin Brodeur - Sean Avery rivalry and how he and the players were not paying too much attention to all the media hype surrounding it, he started to go on about how classless Brodeur was, and then brought up how Brodeur did not shake his hand after the game. “I guess he forgot to shake my hand,” Avery told us.

But then he went on to say that he would have been the bigger person, and said that if the opportunity would have presented itself, “I would have.”

Now, when I hear a lie, I know it.