Quote of the Week

"Last week, [Sean] Avery made agitator history, in the third game of the Rangers' best-of-seven first-round playoff series against the New Jersey Devils, by inventing a new idiot technique. During a Rangers power play, he positioned himself in front of the Devils' goalie, Martin Brodeur, to block his view of the puck -- a standard technique known as a screen. Avery, however, turned to face Brodeur, and, ignoring the play, began waving his arms and his stick in Brodeur's face....Goal.....The next day, amid Pan-Canadian outrage, the N.H.L. issued a decree, informally known as the Sean Avery Rule, or the Nitwit Rule: no more doing that, whatever it was. The innovation, like midget batsmen and airplane shoe-bombing, would prove to be short-lived."
- Nick Paumgarten, "Puckhead," p.23 in the 4/28/08 New Yorker