There’s very good news from Jeremy Colliton: He became Dad to a baby boy this week, he said in a couple of traded text messages. But on the other side, “I’m still not healthy,” Colliton wrote, “so my focus is on getting better. Once that’s in place, I can begin to make a plan for next year.”
It was a rough year; the captain lost 35 games to injuries, most of them the “upper-body” variety. For a classy guy and a solid player, let’s hope his health is in place quickly.
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The Rangers hired Jeff Beukeboom to be Ken Gernander’s assistant in Hartford. Awaiting him at some point will be another righty defenseman with a snarl, 2010 first-rounder Dylan McIlrath, but maybe not immediately: The Rangers also announced that McIlrath dislocated a kneecap in minicamp and had surgery. Meanwhile, Doug Lidster was named an assistant with the Texas Stars. A curiously good day to be a right-shot defenseman from the 1993-94 Rangers. What was Sergei Zubov up to? Got to be something good. (Of course, if only the other one were still with us. That’s still hard to fathom, almost a year later.)
And Skip Prosser was possibly right. (I almost don’t want you to watch that video. I almost want to tell you to go do it first. Worth it.) (Also worth it, unsurprisingly: the rest of that Posnanski post on Kansas City.)