Former Detroit Red Wings forward Sean Avery quickly garnered a reputation for being one of the NHL’s most notorious pests due to his constant trash talking and on (and off) ice antics.
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He got his NHL career started with the Red Wings before being traded to the Los Angeles Kings in 2003 in a deal that brought Mathieu Schneider to the Motor City. That’s when his career really took off.
He’d later see action with the New York Rangers (twice) and the Dallas Stars, who unceremoniously ditched him following his crude comments to the media in 2008 regarding a former girlfriend.
Let’s throw it back to the 2002-03 season during his time in Detroit. He was mic’d up for a game against the Edmonton Oilers in November of 2002, and he had plenty to say over the course of the matchup:
Would you have liked to have seen Avery get more time with Detroit?
