Once the story broke last week that New York Ranger Sean Avery would be trading his skates and hockey stick for messenger slips and Starbucks runs when he interns at Vogue this summer, we here at Style.com started counting up the evidence for Avery's ongoing passion for fashion. After all, most Rangers don't bother inviting both André Leon Talley and Hamish Bowles to attend hockey games—the Vogue editors have been separately spotted at Madison Square Garden in the past four weeks (Bowles even brought Anh Duong along with him). And it's not just any hockey player who can recite the labels of his outfit like he was perusing the racks at Barneys (a recent look included a Calvin Klein overcoat and stingray shoes, Helmut Lang trousers and shirt, a bow tie by Dior Homme, and black nail polish—by Chanel, natch.) In fact, over post-game drinks at the Beatrice Inn one night, I personally saw him nearly kill a man for spilling red wine on his Miu Miu shirt—no idle threat from the player known as the Rangers' killer. So, for a guy who has European fashion magazines next to Sports Illustrated on the coffee table in his Chelsea apartment, the Vogue gig is a perfect fit. "I'm really excited about it," Avery told us, adding that he's thought about his appearance for a while now, and wouldn't mind being a stylist one day. "I'll probably get a lot of shit for working at a fashion magazine," he says. "But the girls I've met from Vogue look pretty nice. We'll see who's laughing when I get to work with them."