While on my world appreciation tour, of which I was unable to involve MHH due to mostkly my laziness I encountered an existential crisis, which cant be solved by buying a new suit. But it can be solved by buying a new Catching Glove. My newesyt glove is a Larceny L9 which doesnt like gloving pucks all that much and lets alot pop out so I went back to my original, RX9 glove which catches slightly better but still isn't perfect and is pretty worn out after 3 years of solid action. While I "may" be partly to blame for my lack of catching ability I choose to believe a new glove will solve all mine, and subsequently the worlds problems. I'm leaning towards either a Vaughn 9500 Pro, Vaughn 9580 Pro or Reebok P3 Pro. If any goalies out here have a opinion on either of these gloves or any

Dater is still very much in love with MHH's own David Driscoll-Carignan as shown by his latest mailbag.

When asked who his favourite hockey writers are he throws in two bloggers, Greg Wyshinsky, from puck daddy, who not many people will disagree with and this person.

and so is a Keene, N.H., resident name David-Driscoll Carignan, who writes for Milehighhockey.com.

It seems MHH is finally getting some respect from the Mainstream media.

“Those hits are unecessary. I thought it was dirty. You don’t need to hit a guy like that, especially when he’s in a vulnerable position. It’s a lack of respect. He’s a young guy trying to prove himself, but there’s other ways to do that.”
“It’s a dirty hit and it should be out of the game. It’s got to come from the players, to police ourselves. It’s got to come from the players. We’ve got to be smarter, and also the coaches. Coaches are out there, they tell those young guys ‘Make sure you hit everybody out there.’ There’s hits and there’s stupid hits. We need to police ourselves as players and take those hits out of the game, before somebody gets killed or paralyzed.”

Taken from Daters latest blog, this is the full interview Lappy did about the Foote hit which didn't all make the paper. He's completely right about everything, It was a lack of respect and he'll be lucky to have a good NHL career if he keeps up these dirty hits. This is one of the main reasons that the NHL needs to say "screw the Americans not watching our game, We'll keep fights because it doesn't make a difference to our ratings"  If Lappy could come out and fight Zeiler without getting an instigator and miscounduct then Zeiler would think twice(assuming he's that smart) next time he wants to drive someone into the boards, right now there's not alot any of the Avs can do to Zeiler if they face him again and i highly doubt he'd drop the gloves with Lappy or either of the Codys.

According to Dater there's some rumours of a trade between the Avs and Canadiens that would send Clark to the Habs and backup goalie Halak to the Avs. It would be interesting to have Halak and Budaj on the same team as their both Slovaks and have probably played together before, plus he couldn't be worse than Raycroft. And just to fill in words maybe lightning would strike twice and we'd get another all star goalie for very little

Daters new blog is primarily about Tucker facing possible suspension for telling Schultz he's going to take out his knees and then clipping him. A stupid thing to do, yes. But will he be suspended for it? Will him being suspended affect the Avs, probably not.

And for anyone like me who was worried when they read the title of his blog, yes he does get a shot in at Budaj, in an article that had nothing to do with the team or the game apart from one brain snap from Tucker.

Dater's latest game recap is up and you'll be glad to know, he still can insult Budaj

It would be tough to put the majority of blame for the loss at Budaj's locker. He did make some fine saves, but big rebounds off his pads have been an issue for the young Slovakian.

While he at least acknowledges the difficulties he faces he manages to overcome them and get an insult in, what a guy.

This from his mailbag shows he still loves Theo

They had a goalie who led them into the playoffs last year and stole a first-round series against the division champs. But they let him go (and yes, Jose Theodore critics, I'm aware of his numbers so far in Washington -- not the greatest). But so far, the Avs' goaltending has been extremely erratic.

Surprise, surprise he didn't answer my question about his hatred of Budaj, If i can find it somewhere i'll post it but the gist of it was asking why he always insults the nicest guy on the team, maybe because he won't get called out by Boods on it.

As for the Q bit everyone's wondering about, without further apu here it is.

Coach Joel Quenneville has been alternating Nikolai Khabibulin and Cristobal Huet

Aren't we glad its somone elses problem now.

UPDATE - I never thought i'd say this but Terry Frei now has more of my respect than Dater, all because he manages to defendBoods AND take a subtle shot at Dater.

Making the Slovak goalie, who recently was the No. 2 star for the week in the NHL and showed an admirable resiliency of spirit in the wake of his horrible start, into a culprit every time the Avalanche loses is the easy way out and would be evading other issues. Truly elite goaltending, from the body of work perspective rather than wildly fluctuating judgments based on one or two games, would make the Avalanche's problems seem less glaring. But there are problems, nonetheless.

For anyone living in Colorado the Avs website has a list of what radio stations will be broadcasting the pre season games along with some hype for the frozen fury game and a recap and schedule for the pre season.

ON THE AIR: Tonight’s game can be heard in Denver on Mile High Sports Radio AM 1510…All six preseason games plus all 82 regular season contests can be heard on AM 1510…There will be no television for the preseason, as Altitude Sports & Entertainment will begin its television coverage of the Avalanche on Oct. 12 at Edmonton…Below is a list of the stations in addition to AM 1510 that will be carrying the Avs’ preseason games:

KRCN 1060 AM     Fort Collins, Greeley, Loveland, and Boulder, CO
KVLE 610 AM         Vail, CO
KSKE 1450 AM      Buena Vista and Salida, CO
KKKK 1580 AM      Colorado Springs and Pueblo, CO
KVLE 102.3 FM      Gunnison, CO
KVLE  93.5 FM       Crested Butte and Monarch, CO 

Interestingly enough it says that Altitude will start showing the regular season from Oct 12 against Edmonton. Don't the Avs start the season against the Bruins. Why isn't Altitude showing the season opener?

The Hockey News has just published their NHL logo rankings and like everything to do with logo's it's completely screwed up. The top 10 is as follows

1. Chicago

2. Detroit

3. Montreal

4. Boston

5. St. Louis

6. Philadelphia

7. Minnesota

8. San Jose

9. Pittsburgh

10. Toronto

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