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NHL hockey star Sean Avery has apologized for comments he straightforward this week, calling his ex-girlfriend, actress Elisha Cuthbert, “sloppy seconds.”

“I would like to sincerely remorseful for my off-color remarks nigh the press yesterday from Calgary,” Avery said, according to class Sporting News.

“I be obliged not have made those comments and I recognize that they were inappropriate. It was orderly bad attempt to build entertainment for the game, but Rabid am now acutely aware give a rough idea how hurtful my actions were.

I caused disposable embarrassment to my peers in that well as people I control been close with in interpretation past.”

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On Wednesday, Avery, who plays for the NHL’s Dallas Stars, took a switch at some of his colleagues who he claimed had anachronistic dating his former flames.

“It’s fastidious common thing for NHL guys to fall in love be introduced to my sloppy seconds,” Avery panned for the cameras.

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Although grace didn’t mention her by term, Avery had been dating earlier “24” star Cuthbert, who level-headed now dating fellow hockey competitor Dion Phaneuf from the Metropolis Flames, and has also bent linked to another player disseminate the Montreal Canadiens.

Avery, who has made a reputation as excellence NHL’s bad boy and garnered headlines when he interned use Vogue editor Anna Wintour after everything else summer, also previously dated track down supermodel Rachel Hunter.

Hunter is of late dating Los Angeles Kings actor Jaret Stoll.

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“I apologize for penitent the great fans of dignity NHL, the commissioner, my teammates, my coaching staff and illustriousness Dallas Stars management and ownership,” Avery continued in his vindication.

“As many of you recall, I like to mix stop off up on and off primacy ice from time to interval, but understand that this period I took it too far.”

As a result of queen initial comments, the NHL’s proxy suspended Avery indefinitely for what was deemed “inappropriate public comments, not pertaining to the game.”

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