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Thomas On Avery
by Paul on 04/05/09 at 09:22 AM ET
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from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,
Sean Avery felt yesterday was the perfect time to give Thomas one to grow on - specifically, a smack to the back of the helmet as the Bruins’ No. 1 goalie was stretching his legs during a TV timeout in the third period.
“Unwritten rule,” Thomas mused, following his 31-stop afternoon and a 1-0 win over the Rangers that led to the Bruins clinching the Eastern Conference regular-season title. “Nothing happens during TV timeouts.”
Like most parts of the rulebook, the TV timeout rule hasn’t been committed to memory by the pugnacious Ranger forward. With Thomas some 30 feet out in the slot, stretching his hamstrings, Avery oh-so-subtly cruised up from behind and smacked his stick to the back of Thomas’s head.
“You look up and see who it is,” recalled Thomas, “and you’re like, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’ So it was just reflex.”
read on & just in case you missed the latest Avery episode, watch it here…
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Thomas is being a little bit of a baby. Avery didn’t come over and smack him like he was swinging a baseball bat. What Avery did was wrong and certainly a penalty. But come on, this is hockey, not figure skating. It wasn’t like he came over and decked the goalie to injure him. He tried to throw Thomas off his game, and judging by his reaction it certainly did.
Posted by Performance Parts on 04/06/09 at 07:30 AM ET