Sean Avery. Gay Rights Advocate. Lover. Fighter. Racist?

Alex Frolov's comments about Sean Avery dropping racial slurs on the ice were big news today, not least of all to Alex Frolov.  In Germany as he trains for the upcoming KHL season with Siberian team Avangard Omsk, Frolov was stunned to learn that he had caused such a stir with words that he did not say. "I didn't have a chance to read the article," Frolov told the Daily News by phone. "Something in the Russian newspaper about Aves. They asked me about Aves and I said he's a friend of mine and a really nice guy. What I said was that he, in the past, used to have problems where he could say something, but he's a really nice person and good friend of mine." The notion of Avery getting into trouble with his mouth was hardly groundbreaking, but the interview with Frolov on sport.ru quoted the former Rangers left wing as saying that Avery "called opponents 'black monkeys.'" Frolov vehemently denied having said that. "I didn't say anything about Aves calling someone bad language - I was saying he's really emotional and that in the past he could say the wrong thing," Frolov told The News. "It wasn't particularly about black people. He doesn't have anything against black people. I mean, he's a nice person, and he wouldn't say something bad about black people or Asian people or any kind of people. It's some kind of misunderstanding."

This should come as no surprise to you that I'm defending Sean Avery. If I have one rule in life, it's this. Anything goes on the field of play. If I can find out a dirty secret about your dad getting sexually molested by your grandpa and I think it'll give me a psychological edge, I'm using it. Same goes for being a straight up racist. Clearly it's not cool to make fun of black people for being black. Yeah it's funny but it doesn't make it right in everyday life. Well a game aint everyday life. You gotta win by any means necessary and if some soft shell of a man loses his shit because you called him a monkey then so be it. That's his problem, not Sean Avery's. I say play on playa. And if you need any fresh derogatory terms, I'm your guy.