Grim news today out of New York as Rangers bad boy forward Sean Avery was rushed to a Manhattan hospital this morning unconscious and not breathing after what the New York Daily News called cardiac arrest hours after his team lost to the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game Three of their Eastern Conference Semi-Final game.
TSN reports Avery suffered a lacerated spleen and is out for the rest of the playoffs but is expected to make a full recovery.
Regardless of what Avery's critics (of which I am one) may think of his on-ice actions and off-ice comments here's hoping that Avery does indeed make a full recovery and returns to action next season.
**UPDATE** Reports of Avery rushed to hospital unconscious and not breathing were not true, according to a Rangers spokesman.
"The spokesman said Avery went to St. Vincent's Medical Center in Lower
Manahattan after the game with a team doctor in a town car. He walked
into the hospital and was not on a stretcher, the spokesman said."
Regardless, best wishes to Avery for a speedy recovery.
Latest from team press release. Spleen lacerated only. No cardiac arrest etc. Walked in ER on own. Will make full and complete recovery.
Wish him a speedy recovery.
He must have taken a hard hit for his spleen to take that kind of damage! Nonetheless I wish him a full recovery so we can all (Rangers fans excluded of course!)go back to hating him next season.
1) In our opionion the original Daily News article borders on slander as it attempted to link Averys hospitalization with his life style.
2) Doesn't this sound like what the mainstream press likes to say we bloggers are guilty of? That we don't have editors to check us before we write, etc.
3) We absolutely hate it when the press tries to link, or make up facts to fit their story line. Here its: Avery is party boy so his medical problem must be linked to that.
4) Collectively we'd take the word from a good blogger over most hockey journalists any day. This is just a prime example why, and why newspaper circulation is plummeting. If we were Avery, we'd sue the News, as we feel this was bordering on, if not actual slander! Shame on the Daily News!
There won't be a great deal of crying over Avery.
Some will say they send their prayers and others will say it was bad karma, finally come home to roost.
I wish him a safe recovery. Just don't get all po'ed around here if the medical staff doesn't bend over backwards and shake his hand on the road to that recovery.
I was reading a lot of what can only be described as hate this morning. Certain newspapers, several websites, and other generally miserable individuals who'd rather skirt the facts and take a shot at a guy while he's down. Heck, one writer wished death on him!
Thank you for not being one of those guys, Spector. You're one of the few who's shown respect to Sean Avery as a human. Separating the human from the hockey player seems a rare accomplishment these days, so kudos to you.
Hope he makes a full recovery. Hope Sather gives him a juicy contract when the Rangers get punked tomorrow night in a 6-1 Penguins blowout, unless this is the match that lights a fire under the Rangers' collective backsides, in which the Rangers win 12-3. Good to hear it's not as serious as some made it seem. GWS and all.
I do not know what is more distasteful: the initial news reports that paraded unsubstantiated claims concerning Avery's personal life that were completely irrelevant to the unfolding medical story, or that pack of uncouth troglodytes across the internet exhibiting grotesque amounts of Schadenfreude at the turn of the Karmic wheel.
I pray for Avery’s speedy recovery without complications. And I’m once more grateful that Lyle and his readers prove yet again to be an oasis of sanity and decency in an otherwise parched landscape.
Matty, the newspaper digging into the low-life's personal life is worse than Avery stopping at the net and talking smack about the netminder's ex-wife? Avery is getting his due.
The avalanche coming down on him from sports fans is of his own doing. Sit back and enjoy the insipid comments from the angry.
I'm Lyle Richardson, also known as Spector, Foxsports.com 's "Prince of Pucks".,which is based on the fact I live in Prince Edward Island, Canada and I couldn't think of a better byline. I've been an NHL hockey commentator since 1998 on my website, Spector's Hockey, and I'm a contributing writer for Foxsports.com , The Hockey News and Eishockey News. I'm also a regular on The Faceoff Hockey Show and a frequent guest on "The Late Crew" on The Team 1200 Ottawa.
