Five bits

Hugh Jessiman re-signed with the Rangers. Erstwhile W-Sharks Dan Spang and Jonathan Tremblay are now QC Flames.

Curt Fraser is going to be the new coach in Grand Rapids, Michael Zuidema reports. He was an assistant on Steve Stirling’s first Islanders staff. (Fraser, not Zuidema. That’d be cool.)

The Whalercanes are retiring No. 2 for Glen Wesley. Which is good, because nobody should have been wearing 2, anyway.

Found this fascinating, on Language Log: that place up north, “arctic,” or “artic”? It’s more complicated than you might think. (I’ve been trying them out, and I’m all over the figurative map: “the arctic,” “artic circle,” “Antartica,” “the antarctic.” I’m a mess.)

Michael Fornabaio