Sean Avery of the Los Angeles Kings knows two things.

1) That the union fucked the players they were supposed to be protected, and

2) That the NHL’s players owe the fans an apology.

He called the LA Times the other day to offer that apology to the fans. “Can you please tell all the fans that we’re sorry?” he said. “We’re really, really sorry.” Sean Avery just become my new favorite hockey player. Jeremy Roenick remains my least favorite.

It’s a pretty cool thing that he called up a newspaper and asked them to print an apology to hockey fans. Even cooler that he talks about how he feels so wronged by Bob Goodenow and the players union, who completely misread the entire situation and are about to agree to anything and everything that the owners ever wanted. At this point, if the owners asked for games to be decided by shootouts or by Turkish oil wrestling matches, the union would have to agree. Flyers owner Ed Snider is said to be a huge proponent of the oil wrestling.

Anyway… good move, Sean Avery. Even if you didn’t mean it, you had me believing it. A slightly more tactful approach than the “kiss my ass and we don’t want you back” approach taken by Jeremy Roenick.