Brodeur not distracted by Avery
via New York Post:
Martin Brodeurtill wasn’t happy about Sean Avery’s antics in the Devils Game 3 win at the Garden on Sunday, but he refused to blast the pesky Blueshirt over it.
“He didn’t do anything illegal,” Brodeur said yesterday regarding Avery’s attempt at distracting the goalie by standing directly in front of him and waving his stick in his face “totally disregarding the play.”
A few hours later, however, it was, as the league issued a statement that outlawed the maneuver.
“An unsportsmanlike conduct minor penalty will be interpreted and applied, effective immediately, to a situation when an offensive player positions himself facing the opposition goaltender and engages in actions such as waving his arms or stick in front of the goaltender’s face, for the purpose of improperly interfering with and/or distracting the goaltender as opposed to positioning himself to try to make a play,” Colin Campbell, the NHL director of hockey operations, said in a statement.
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