Avery's MRI Comes Up Clean, Makes Interesting Comment about 08-09 Team

Earlier today, Andrew Gross over at Ranger Rants spoke with Rangers forward Sean Avery, who suffered a knee injury when colliding with Ryan Callahan in practice. Avery stated that his MRI came up clean, but there is not a current date as to when he will return to the lineup. When asked if he will be ready for Opening Night, he replied "definitely".

Avery will undergo the same process tomorrow, that Paul Mara did last season, which consists of doctors withdrawing blood cells from a different part of your body, and then injecting them in the injured area, which in Avery's case, is his right knee.

Gross also questioned Aves on Tortorella's displeasure of the team being tired after only the quarterfinals in last year's playoffs, and Sean elected to respond with this very interesting quote:

"It was a tough situation, I think it was a long year," Avery said. "Much of it was a lot of smoke and mirrors with the team. It was not as close as people indicated."

I take this as last year's team was not as "tightly knit" as they may have falsely appeared, and the the locker-room personalities were a bit deceiving. Take this for what it is worth, as I understand it is coming from no other but Sean Avery, who we know is infamous for creating problematic situations, but regardless, it makes you wonder who exactly were the culprits behind this, and if they are still on this team.

I guess we will never really know, but the bottom line is that there must have been some behind the scenes problems within the locker-room that us fans were unaware of. Now obviously last year does not mean much at this point, but some of the personalities on this team are a bit "iffy", if you will, so we will see how things workout, but so far I have heard that the team has great chemistry on and off the ice.

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