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Mueller is Avalanche’s Masterton Trophy

It’s the annual award for the NHL player who best exemplifies perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey. The Colorado chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers Association determined this nomination.

Mueller deserves this award because of the obvious perseverance he’s shown through two serious concussions in the last two years with Colorado. He never whined, never made things about himself. He just hung in there and worked to get back, and he has.

He also has quietly done some very good things in this community. Chief among them is buying tickets to every home game for military veterans, including some who have been victims of head trauma.

Here is the list of nominees from all 30 teams:

Anaheim — Jonas Hiller
Boston — Johnny Boychuk
Buffalo — Jason Pominville
Calgary — Miikka Kiprusoff
Carolina — Jay Harrison
Chicago — Ray Emery
Colorado — Peter Mueller
Columbus — Curtis Sanford
Dallas — Kari Lehtonen
Detroit — Tomas Holmstrom
Edmonton — Corey Potter
Florida — Tomas Fleischmann
Los Angeles — Colin Fraser
Minnesota — Clayton Stoner
Montreal — Max Pacioretty
Nashville — Jordin Tootoo
New Jersey — Petr Sykora
N.Y. Islanders — Jay Pandolfo
N.Y. Rangers — Dan Girardi
Ottawa — Daniel Alfredsson
Philadelphia — Jaromir Jagr
Phoenix — Mike Smith
Pittsburgh — Matt Cooke
San Jose — Tommy Wingels
St. Louis — Brian Elliott
Tampa Bay — Martin St. Louis
Toronto — Joffrey Lupul
Vancouver — Manny Malhotra
Washington — Dennis Wideman
Winnipeg — Jim Slater

Source: Adrian Dater´s blog