Mitchell Heard (John Leyba, Denver Post file)
A few minutes here with 2012 Avs draftee Mitchell Heard.
I’ll try to do more of these player interviews and just post them here for easy listening pleasure. Keep in mind, I’m in preseason mode too, so pardon me for some of the stuttering questions and a minor factual error or two in a couple of them. While I’ll never be confused for a professional broadcaster, one of my pledges this year is to ask better questions, especially when I’m on the microphone for all to hear. Usually, I’m better one-on-one with players with nobody recording it for mass listening, but I’ll be better at this art going forward.
Mitchell Heard is in his second training camp with the Avs. The number should be three, but the lockout of 2012 took care of that. He has 86 games of pro experience with Lake Erie, but only five goals. But he has drawn good notices otherwise for his toughness and defensive ability. He’s a good agitator by all accounts. He has that great cocky/arrogant look to him, which is not to say he is that way in real life. He’s been nothing but a gentleman with me anyway. But in hockey parlance, that’s a good compliment. He gets under opponents’ skin. He could be the carbon copy of Dan Hinote with the Avs some day soon, or better.
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