Avery Hearing Set for Thursday

Commissioner to discuss 'sloppy seconds' remark

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told Dallas Stars' player Sean Avery to come to New York for a hearing Thursday on remarks that resulted in the indefinite suspension of the Stars defenseman.

Bettman disciplined Avery on Tuesday for making "inappropriate public comments, not pertaining to the game."

The punishment came down only hours after Avery used a crude term about his former girlfriends now dating other hockey players.

"More than anything, he's let his teammates down," said Dallas co-general manager Brett Hull, who played with Avery in Detroit several years ago, was a driving force in signing him and will represent the Stars at the hearing.

Avery's inflammatory line came following a morning skate in Calgary, Alberta in reference to Calgary player Dion Phaneuf and Phaneuf's girl friend Elisha Cuthbert, who previously had a relationship with Avery.

"I am really happy to be back in Calgary, I love Canada," Avery said on camera this morning in Calgary. "I just want to comment on how it's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don't know what that's about. Enjoy the game tonight."

 

Avery's ex-girlfriend, actress Elisha Cuthbert of the television show "24" and the movie "Old School," is dating Calgary defenseman Dion Phaneuf; she also had been romantically linked to Mike Komisarek of the Montreal Canadiens.

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