So, I tend to be critical of some things when I post to a blog.  A lot of things, actually.  Like everything winged wheel.  Like Tyler Arnason and Tony "Dan loves me" Granato.  And things I don't appreciate or agree with in the main stream media.  Like Kroenke switching Av radio coverage to the bic lighter of the Rockies, 1510 AM, which I still absolutely do NOT get in Boulder. 

Sometimes my criticism switches to specific MSM personalities.  Like AD, who I still love, but not DDC or Jibble type of love, or Terry Frei, or lately, the radio broadcaster who shall remain nameless (but it sort of rhymes with "hoser").  I think I have recently complained that this broadcaster randomly throws in wild voice inflections at odd times to try to spice up his broadcast.

Well, I've just sort of started entering the world of twitter, and my tweets have been limited and uninteresting for the most part.  There is this special part of twitter where someone you follow can send you a personal message.  I have received two of these such "personal tweets."  One from Jibble to answer some newbie question I had about twitter.  The other, very recently, from said radio personality informing me that he has heard from someone else that there is a Bob in Boulder who, and I quote, "hates his guts." 

How do you respond to such a personal tweet?  Well, for one thing, in twitter, you don't.  Unless that someone is also following you, it is impossible to send back a personal message.  Of course, I do not in fact hate this person's guts.  Actually, I do admire his enthusiasm for the Avs.  Do I think he is the best P-by-P guy I've ever heard?  No, but he's certainly not the worst either (are Dan and I the only people in Denver who think that Dave Logan is about the absolute worst P-by-P guy in the history of football?).  So, Mr. "sort of rhymes with hoser," please accept this as an offering of peace.  In summary, I don't hate you.  I admire your enthusiasm.  I have, however, been critical of your P-by-P in this forum.  Now rip this thing apart if you wish.  You're out there in the open, now, in a limited degree, so am I.   

Let's first catalog the depth of the uncalled infraction:

- Well after the puck had left Hannan's stick.

- After play was dead due to the goal.

- Left his feet.

- Deliberate cross check to the neck/face.

- Resulted in an injury to Hannan.

Sounds like no penalty to me!  As I've posted already, imo, it should have been a 5-minute major and a game misconduct.  Add to the above facts that it wasn't the little prick's Briere's first offense, you would think a suspension would be in order.  So here's a little unbiased poll. 

To break from our favorite topic of predicting the demise of the upstart Avs for a bit here, I have witnessed a disturbing trend in this year's games of goalies getting run, tackled, backed into, pushed into the net, hacked with sticks, guys standing with both feet in their crease butt to mask .... all without any calls of goaltender interference.  I'm actually starting to miss the "in the crease" rule. 

Is it just me or are the refs just not calling goaltender interference this season?  Seems like a very dangerous development.  Does anyone think it is some sort of edict from the NHL front office to try to increase scoring? 

Watching Hensuck Arnason around for around 7 minutes against the wheel the other night, and seeing that they had called up Brian "We'llsee why he is a career minor leaguer at best" Willsie, I couldn't help but wonder, "Why not Durno?"  The guy is big, looks like he can skate and has shown some skill, and looked pretty good during his brief stints with the Avs last season.  Also, he's leading the Monsters in scoring with 6 goals and 3 assists in 8 games. 

So I go to the LEM website and look at the team stats, and Durno has an "X" next to his name.  Like other guys the Avs have recalled, meaning he's not on the LEM active roster.  Is he hurt or has he been recalled?  I'd love to see him given a shot over Hensuck and Willsie.

Update: Dater confirms in his blog that Durno has been called up.  I guess the LEM website beat him to the scoop, however.

Fellow Av fans and MHHers, I have a personal dilemma and am looking for some advice.  This post is mostly OT, but I can tie it in with the Avs to a degree. 

My cell phone service, via Qwest, is about to go silent at of the end of this month.  With it, I would imagine, would be my circa 1995 cell phone that does little else other than make and receive calls.  So I'm thinking of taking the plunge into one of those fancy phones that everyone else has, a crackberry or an iphone or some other such thing. 

But I'm still kind of cheap, so have been looking into my service options.  Seems like no matter what company you go through, for a plan with two phones someone's going to dig into your  pocket each month of a minimum of around $70.  Without bells and whistles.  So, if I'm going to take the plunge and get a fancy phone, I'd be looking at extra money for web access, and extra money for messaging, etc. etc.

So, how does this tie into the Avs?  Well, if I pay up the wazzoo for unlimited web access and unlimited messaging, I guess I could start twittering or tweeting or whatever the hell you call it.  I know some of you folks have dabbled with this, and Dater is now dabbling as well.   I would imagine that if I take the full plunge I would end up using the messaging capability, tied in with twitter or whatever, to obsess over the Avs like I do with web access now.  Is it worth it?  Do you end up linked in with other tweeters so that you get instant phone updates from them based on whatever their twittering on about?  And while I'm asking questions, what are good phones and providers?