NEW YORK - Sean Avery surged past camera crews and reporters Thursday, choosing to save his comments this time for NHL commissioner Gary Bettman during a three-hour disciplinary hearing.
The Dallas Stars forward was suspended indefinitely on Tuesday just hours after he told reporters in Calgary that he didn't understand why fellow NHLers were falling in love with his `sloppy seconds.'
The comment was interpreted as a shot at Flames defenceman Dion Phaneuf, who is dating Canadian actress Elisha Cuthbert, Avery's ex-girlfriend.
Hockey's most notorious pest came to league headquarters in midtown Manhattan to give his version of the latest events that landed him in big trouble. Now it's up to Bettman to determine just how long Avery will be kept off the ice.
`I haven't made a decision yet,' Bettman said during his weekly radio show on XM Satellite Radio. `I want to take the opportunity to spend a little time thinking about what transpired at the hearing and everything that I was told and that needs to be considered.
`I want to reflect on it, which means either sometime later this afternoon or tomorrow morning we will render a decision and we will make it public.'
