NHL’s Sean Avery Busts Man’s Car Mirror In Heated Dispute, But Claims He’s The Victim

Former NHL star Sean Avery busted a man’s car mirror during a heated altercation in L.A. Thursday morning … but he tells TMZ Sports he’s the real victim in the situation.

Here’s the deal … law enforcement tells us cops were called out to the 8300 block of the Yucca Trail near West Hollywood around 10 AM to respond to a call of vandalism.

What happened preceding the call, though seems to boil down to two sides.

On one end, there’s Niku Azam. On the other, there’s Avery … and both guys claim the other dude was the aggressor in the incident.

Azam says a couple weeks ago, back in mid-February, he got into a confrontation with Avery in the neighborhood after unintentionally blocking the former hockey player down a two-way, one-lane road.

Azam says when he backed up to let Avery by … the 40-year-old ex-NY Ranger became aggressive, rolled down his window and yelled “slow down you fat f***” over and over.

Azam says he hadn’t had any contact with Avery since … until Thursday morning, when he drove by the NHL player, who was on a jog.

Azam claims Avery recognized him from their February incident, and became incensed, and chased after him.

In video of the incident, you can see what happened next … Avery caught up to Azam and opened his door — before Azam quickly pulled it shut.

Azam then rolled down his window and called Avery a “psychopath.”

Avery then stood in front of Azam’s car … until Azam drove slowly towards him while honking his horn.

Avery eventually got out of the way, but elbowed the dude’s driver’s side mirror as he stepped aside.

Avery, though, claims the whole thing was started because Azam hit him while he was jogging.

Avery says he chased Azam down to try to get him to stop … saying Azam, “Tried to run me over.” Avery added, “My leg’s a little hurt.”

Cops wouldn’t reveal any more details from their investigation into the incident Thursday … only telling us that a report was taken. They added no arrests were made.