Whether running around the ice waving his arms or running around the ice waving his arms, Howler is an Avsmonkey favorite. Between periods at the Pepsi Center, Dives fans of all ages cheer and clap with delight to see the beloved team mascot running around the ice waving his arms.

What exactly is Howler? No one is quite sure. Born to Ted "Unibomber" Kozinzki and an English sheepdog, Howler's location on the evolutionary tree remains a puzzler. But one fact is certain, when it comes to swabbing the decks of the Pepsi Center after a game, Howler's head is just what the doctor ordered!

Once a vicious creature displaying symptoms of advanced schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome and rabies, Howler was discovered in 1997 in the McNichols Arena parking lot, where he was arrested for exposing himself to an undercover male officer. With a record of previous arrests for narcotics possession, drunkenness, larceny, assault, soliciting, vagrancy, public nudity and damage to property, Howler was no stranger to the jail cells of downtown Denver. But his hard luck was about to change.

At the same time Howler was being booked, Divealanche GM Pierre "Lizzy" Lacroix happened to be at the Denver Jail, bailing out a group of his hockey players. Seeing the strange, mop creature running around the drunk tank, screaming and waving his arms, Lacroix had a burst of inspiration. The Divealanche needed a mascot. Howler needed bail. A deal was made. Lacroix wrote a check and headed out the door, his new mascot stumbling behind him in arm and leg shackles. It was the stuff of which fairy tails are made.

Today, aided by a strict regimen of powerful tranquilizers and mood suppressants, Howler is a star of the Divealanche community. When he's not running around and waving his arms on the ice of the Pepsi Center, the energetic fellow can often be found running around and waving his arms at nervous patrons in the parking lot of Argonaut Liquors on Denver's delightful East Colfax Avenue. It is there that Howler has made a home for himself in a trash barrel he shares with his sweetheart, Sheila, a life-size inflatable doll.