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Avery, NHL commissioner meet; decision coming Friday
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Sean Avery leaves his meeting with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Thursday in New York. The Stars forward was suspended indefinitely on Tuesday.
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Sean Avery leaves his meeting with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on Thursday in New York. The Stars forward was suspended indefinitely on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Avery surged past camera crews and reporters on Thursday, choosing to save his comments this time for NHL commissioner Gary Bettman during a three-hour disciplinary hearing.

The Dallas Stars forward was suspended indefinitely on Tuesday just hours after he used a crude expression to describe former girlfriends now dating others while speaking to reporters.

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The league's most notorious pest came to NHL headquarters in midtown Manhattan to give his version of the latest events that landed him in big trouble. Now it's up to Bettman to determine just how long Avery will be kept off the ice.

The NHL said that an announcement would be made Friday.

"I haven't made a decision yet," Bettman said during his weekly radio show broadcast on NHL.com. "I want to take the opportunity to spend a little time thinking about what transpired at the hearing and everything that I was told and that needs to be considered. I want to reflect on it."

Avery was joined at the hearing by his agent, Pat Morris, Stars general manager Brett Hull and players' association player affairs director Glenn Healy. NHL disciplinarian Colin Campbell was also in attendance, but Bettman is handling Avery's punishment.

"He was remorseful in what he did. It's about all you can do," Hull said. "I hope that we can put this all behind us and we can make sure that the league and the Stars and the NHLPA do everything to make sure that I don't have to stand here or anyone else has to stand here and talk about stupid things like this anymore and make sure they don't happen."

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