Hockey: So What Were You Saying About "Sloppy Seconds" Mr. Avery?

Fashion fiending NHL star Sean Avery has apologized for recent inappropriate remarks he made in Canada that resulted in a 6-game suspension, without pay, from the Dallas Stars.

On Tuesday, Avery gathered reporters before the Stars' game against the Calgary Flames and made comments referencing his ex-girlfriend, actress Elisha Guthbert, and her relationship with Flames' defenseman Dion Phaneuf and also Rachel Hunter, who is currently engaged to LA Kings center Jarret Stoll:

Uh, I'm really happy to be back in Calgary. I love Canada.

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.

Guthbert has also been linked to Montreal Canadiens' Mike Komisarek.

Avery issued an apology and expressed remorse for his statement saying:

I should not have made those comments, and I recognize that they were inappropriate.

It was a bad attempt to build excitement for the game, but I am now acutely aware of how hurtful my actions were. I caused unnecessary embarrassment to my peers as well as people I have been close with in the past.

He also went on to say, "As many of you know, I like to mix it up on and off the ice from time to time but understand that this time I took it too far."

This isn't the first controversy for "the most hated man in hockey" and it won't be the last. I think someone looooves the spotlight!

Source: NY Daily News

(Photo: Getty Images)

Rich Rodriguez is a self-described “tennis addict” who not only plays regularly around his home base of Brooklyn, NY but also writes the blog Down the Line!

Unless otherwise stated, no particular sexual orientation of anyone depicted is implied or should be presumed.