At the end of the season, Matt Carkner sounded to be seriously contemplating retirement. He sounded even closer on an Ottawa radio station on Tuesday. “Never say never,” he told them, but still.
Springfield — the new Springfield — has its new coach, longtime Albany and Charlotte assistant Geordie Kinnear, reunited with old boss Tom Rowe. (We have our own memories of Kinnear around here, from one of those Francois St. Laurent nights.)
| TEAM | Old | New |
| BIN | Luke Richardson (4/18) | — |
| MTB | Keith McCambridge (4/22) | Pascal Vincent (5/27) |
| SA | Dean Chynoweth (4/26) | — |
| CHA | Mark Morris (5/3, St. Lawrence) | Ulf Samuelsson (5/31) |
| SYR | Rob Zettler (5/10) | Benoit Groulx (5/10) |
| ROC | Randy Cunneyworth (5/16) | Dan Lambert (5/16) |
| PVD | Bruce Cassidy (5/24, BOS ass’t) | — |
| TUC-s | Ron Rolston (5/24) | — |
| SPR-s | Scott Allen (FLA ass’t, 5/30) | Geordie Kinnear (6/7) |
| CHI | John Anderson (6/2) | — |
s-Tucson being the old Springfield; Springfield being the old Portland.
Soundin’ Off Book Club: Roger Lowenstein, America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve. GET BACK HERE I see your eyes glazing over, but seriously: It’s a good read on a piece of history that never seemed to get a fair shake in class and a bit of finance I never comprehended. Lowenstein put things like credit, tariffs, panics, money, bank runs, the gold standard and the Roosevelt-Taft split in perspective like I’d never seen before. (I also never knew that the NYSE closed for four months in 1914.) Highly recommended. (I think the heads up came from Tyler Cowen at some point in the past year or so.)