Why do so many people despise Sean Avery and Matt Cooke?

People always hate the villain. It's what makes for great drama is to see there be a hero, to have someone to root for, and also to equally have someone to root against. In Avery's case, it's because he has no respect for the game.

But it's also because he seeks attention any way that he can get it, even if that's by doing the unpopular things like not censoring himself in post-game interviews, or being divisive in his own locker room. Over the years in my other life as an NHL reporter, I've had two different people that have worked security for NHL organizations tell me they had to "babysit" Avery. With Cooke, he has no respect for the game, and has no respect for other players.It's one thing to be an agitator and to take runs at players that are better than you and aren't as tough as you.

It's another to then have the same chance with players of equal size or bigger and cower away from them. The problem with Cooke is that he always looks to take a cheap shot when he can, and never allows himself to stand up and take the retaliation. The other problem is that they are both trying to fill a long-standing role in this league as prime agitator, in the mold of Esa Tikkanen and Claude Lemieux.

The difference there is that those players could also step up big in big games and score big goals to help their teams win championships.

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