For many of us, Mile High Hockey is the essential conduit through which we enjoy this sport. It provides us crucial facts, fantastic analysis, and -- most importantly -- the community with whom we cheer our heroes in burgundy and blue. For me, the content of this blog helped me learn and appreciate a sport previously as foreign to me as cricket or caber tossing. I didn't grow up on ice skates; and despite calling Colorado home during the Avalanche's early championship years, it wasn't something I spent a lot of time watching.
Strangely, it took until the lean years after 2008 to really grab my attention.