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The Adam Friedland Show

SEAN AVERY Talks NHL Fights, Trash Talk, Christopher Nolan

20 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

0.031 - 23.271 Adam Friedland

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208.768 - 210.47 Sean Avery

That's a wild question.

211.271 - 216.018 Adam Friedland

I don't know. Just think about it. Or are you not a notch on the bedpost kind of guy?

Chapter 3: What unique role did Sean Avery play in the NHL?

759.972 - 761.595 Sean Avery

Yeah. Yeah. 16. Yeah.

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761.615 - 762.917 Adam Friedland

And then you started playing juniors.

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763.157 - 772.514 Sean Avery

And that's when I started playing juniors. And that's, you know, when you move away from home, you move in with this family. Some guys fall in love. Some guys. I just.

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772.534 - 773.736 Adam Friedland

Some guys fuck them up.

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773.716 - 793.782 Sean Avery

I just went to work. I shot pucks. I didn't want to go to school. The rink was open. I said, what do you mean? This is our arena and the ice is there and we, you're not renting it. And I, so I think like early on, I was one of the, I was just like, I'm not, I'm going to go shoot pucks. You wanted to work. I wanted to work. Yeah.

794.423 - 796.365 Adam Friedland

So what, what are the Russian guys like?

796.514 - 797.796 Sean Avery

Russian guys are incredible.

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Do you guys hang with them?

798.898 - 802.524 Sean Avery

New money, baby. Yeah, yeah. It's so fun. Louis Vuitton.

Chapter 4: Who does Sean Avery still have beef with in the NHL?

2856.201 - 2857.803 Sean Avery

For sure, it was not cool.

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2858.023 - 2862.052 Adam Friedland

Who do you still have smoke with? Is there a guy that you're like, fuck that guy?

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2862.092 - 2865.376 Sean Avery

There's a guy named Matthew Barnaby who actually played for the Rangers.

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2865.817 - 2866.357 Adam Friedland

Oh, shit.

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2866.377 - 2889.285 Sean Avery

I remember that guy. And Barnaby was, I mean, I love Matthew Barnaby as a player. Matthew Barnaby now on X. He doesn't even use Instagram, which is like such a boomer move. He's only an X guy. Could be a cool move, maybe, actually. Could be the move is a great Instagram account, by the way. What is could be the move? It's could be the move. What is it?

2889.946 - 2902.372 Sean Avery

Could be the move is during the World Series, because you're a team player, you wear your batting glove to work. Oh, shit. For your boys? For the boys. Could be the move. And then you send it to them? And then everybody does it.

2902.492 - 2903.294 Adam Friedland

And everyone does it.

2903.314 - 2903.554 Sean Avery

Yeah.

Chapter 5: What was Sean Avery's experience with CTE?

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Could be the move. Could be the move. I lost $200 million in gambling for Shohei. Oh, you were the guy? No, I'm the bag man. No, I'm not the translator.

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2914.055 - 2919.325 Sean Avery

No, you kind of could look like him. Do I look Japanese? If we shaved your head and...

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2919.507 - 2935.044 Adam Friedland

That's respect-a-roo, dude. That's respect. Wait, so, like, obviously you had compromise. You knew the things that would trigger them. But, like, you knew that they're also bros. Like, was there an aspect of the fact that you were interning at Vogue, you were, like, kind of a dandy, off ice.

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2935.184 - 2935.464 Unknown

Yeah.

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2935.765 - 2944.955 Adam Friedland

Was there an aspect where you, like, there was an entrenched maybe, like, I'm getting chirped by, like, a fucking, like, what, this guy's, like, he's a fancy boy.

2945.015 - 2966.271 Sean Avery

Yeah, I was, like... There's a great clip of Wayne Simmons, who was a great player. He was a black hockey player. Yeah. Not many. Yeah. There's an incredible clip of him. He's on the Philadelphia bench and I'm in the penalty box and he screams and you can see it. He calls me a faggot. He screams. Yeah.

2966.251 - 2979.951 Sean Avery

So I did intern at Vogue and I did it because I've always been curious, but I also think subconsciously and now, you know, being able to analyze like your life. You were fucking with them.

Chapter 6: How did Sean Avery transition from hockey to acting?

2979.971 - 2986.117 Sean Avery

I was fucking with them. You were fucking with them. I was the troll. I was the alt. You're a genius. I was so deep in the troll game.

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2986.197 - 2990.401 Adam Friedland

Because there is amongst bros like an entrenched homophobic. And you were also early.

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2990.441 - 2991.963 Sean Avery

Oh, entrenched. I mean, no. Yeah.

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2992.023 - 2997.769 Adam Friedland

Yeah, you were early. You were like well ahead of the curve. And you like advocated for gay rights like in the league.

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2997.949 - 3006.457 Sean Avery

I was the first professional athlete to. Really? On the record. Yeah. In my Ranger jersey, which is credit to Jim Dolan. Yeah.

3006.537 - 3008.96 Unknown

Yeah. Oh, by the way, can I tell you something?

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Yeah.

3010.919 - 3019.054 Sean Avery

I do jiu-jitsu at Clockwork Jiu-Jitsu in Soho. You should start doing it. A man that can't grapple is... You can?

3019.255 - 3021.719 Adam Friedland

Like, you're late to late 30s? You learn how to fight?

Chapter 7: What insights does Sean Avery share about his time in the NHL?

3042.308 - 3045.194 Sean Avery

It's embarrassing. That's the point. It's an ego killer.

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3045.214 - 3049.363 Adam Friedland

But what were we talking about? You do jiu-jitsu at Clockwork Jiu-Jitsu?

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3049.495 - 3078.55 Sean Avery

No, no, I know, but I was going into it for some reason. We both are idiots. We were talking about Dolan. You know, here's what's funny, and I will say this right now, because Dan Carcillo, who played for the Rangers, played for Philly, won a Stanley Cup in Chicago, he's now one of the leaders in psilocybin therapy. Yeah. Okay? Yeah. I have CTE.

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3078.57 - 3105.808 Sean Avery

There's no question I have CTE because my short term memory is not good. Yeah. All right. It's getting better because of what I do now for work. And I'm like, I've been working that muscle, my fucking long term memory. I've had numerous people on this New York trip tell me stories. I hadn't seen them in a while. Like wild stories. that I had no recollection of.

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3105.868 - 3106.99 Adam Friedland

I think you're probably just fucked up.

3107.23 - 3121.788 Sean Avery

I was moving fast and I was fucked up. Yeah, yeah. But also a little bit of the CTE is starting to... I think the short goes first, though. Well... well, my short's not, like, it's not the best. My mom had... Look what just happened.

3121.808 - 3143.752 Adam Friedland

My mom had brain cancer, so she experienced, like, dementia. And, like, the cool thing was, like, when she started, the short term went, I would talk to her and I'd have her tell stories from before. And so she would remember things from, like, Like 1981 like it and that that was like a way I could like Interesting with her like she's still here. No, she she passed away.

3143.773 - 3152.79 Sean Avery

Yeah, and I'm my best usually much with you know, I've been reading a lot of research papers on LSD and Alzheimer's prevention

3152.872 - 3155.057 Adam Friedland

Well, yeah, she had brain cancer.

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