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COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
Sean Avery, who plays left wing for the New York Rangers, is what hockey people call an agitator. His job, which seems to have no analogue in sports--or in any line of work, except maybe terrorism--is to annoy his opponents so intensely that they cannot resist retaliating. He goads foes into losing their focus and, in theory, the game. Every team in the National Hockey League has at least one agitator, but Avery may be the best, or the worst, of the current lot. His peers have voted him, by a wide margin, the most hated player in the league, and the dirtiest. In a milieu known for swallowed words and held tongues (to go with surreptitious elbows and deployable fists), hockey players occasionally open up on the...
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