For a Devils team who are saying they're ignoring Sean Avery they're sure talking about him a lot. Here's some of the quotes I picked up from the New York Times and Newsday...“We knew he’d be around the net,” (Colin) White said. “He’s good at getting body position.”
“He’s just doing what he always does, and the best way to deal with that is to ignore him,” Devils right wing Brian Gionta said. “When he’s least effective is when you ignore him.”
“I don’t want to compliment him on that, but I’ve never seen it before,” Devils left wing Zach Parise said. “He’s creative like that.”
"If someone's going to do something like that," forward Jay Pandolfo said, "you should be able to knock him on his -- and not get a penalty."
"My first reaction to that is definitely to do something about it," defenseman Paul Martin said, "but then me or [defenseman Colin] White ends up in the box for two minutes. The refs have to do something there. If this was the regular season, you absolutely would have seen one of us take care of him."
"To be quite honest, I don't go home and lose sleep over Sean Avery," he (Devils coach Brent Sutter) said. "As far as being a hockey player, he's a decent hockey player. As far as the other stuff, it's totally irrelevant."
...It doesn't look like they're doing a very good job of ignoring him. Actually, the only time they're ignoring him is when he's scoring. Which so far has been in each of the first three games.
...Sutter says he doesn't lose sleep over Avery, but if the Rangers win this series he'll be seeing Avery in his sleep all summer long.
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