Captain closer: Wednesday notes

It looks good for Jeremy Colliton to play this weekend, and today’s practice lines included him in the top nine, on the right. Colliton was with Tyler McNeely and David Ullstrom on right wing, which slid Tim Wallace to the side of Micheal Haley and Trevor Frischmon. The Cizikas line stayed intact.

“(Colliton) brings veteran experience to the line,” Brent Thompson said. “He and Ullstrom can read off each other. And with McNeely, that’s a pretty good offensive line, and a defensively responsible line. Going on the road, we want to make sure each line (is capable) offensively and defensively.”

It’s not the first time Colliton has played the right side here. He has usually wound up back in the middle quickly. We’ll see. It’s early; we’ve seen a few different combinations already.

When they get to Glens Falls, they won’t be seeing Stefan Legein.

Paul Doyle and the paper upstate have a blog going on the Whale.

Rod Pasma is going to the NHL, so the AHL has a new VP of hockey operations, former Dartmouth player Mike Murray.

Neat facts about fire. (Lost the h/t off Twitter. Sorry.)

And RIP, legendary high school coach Jerry McDougall.

Michael Fornabaio