NHL Denies Authorizing Avery Rule T-Shirt

The Yahoo! NHL Experts Blog reports on the NHL denying today's Larry Brooks story in the New York Post saying the NHL authorized the selling of an official Avery Rules t-shirt...

"This all seemed a little too hip for the NHL -- we didn't exactly see a flood of Ryan Hollweg piñatas hit the market, did we? -- so our crap detector went off immediately. Apparently so did the one Sports Business Daily keeps in its office, because it quickly got the following denial from the NHL: "NHL Senior VP/Communications Bernadette Mansur: 'This was a concept that was brought to our attention and rejected earlier this week.'"

So this could have been an official NHL/NHLPA/Reebok T-shirt, but no need to cry hypocrisy here. In keeping with the League's 15-year tradition of rejecting anything fans might actually want out of their game, you'll just have to buy the pirated product."

...just when I thought the NHL was finally getting it. Unbelievable. Actually what's unbelievable is that I believed something that Larry Brooks reported.

...anyone interested in buying the real Avery Rules t-shirt click here.

...on an unrelated note, check out the "no need to cry hypocrisy" link in the story. That's right a link set directly to the New York Rangers Blog. We're blowin' up, I tell ya.