Making a connection

For the most part, NHL players are an amiable bunch, especially if you share a common experience.

While having New York’s Jason Krog sign a couple AHL pucks yesterday (Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, left, and Lowell Lock Monsters), I mentioned that not only were we fans of the University of New Hampshire program, where he won the 1999 Hobey Baker Memorial Award, but that we also had lived in Rochester, N.H., about two towns over from Durham.

"Rochester? Really?" he asked. "They have a great golf course there."