Making the effort

It's always our intentions to add any NHL's team's top players to pucks before any other item. Some days, it happens. Other times, though, it doesn't.

Given the 20-plus crowd that swarmed the Rangers' elite Wednesday before the team's morning skate, it's remarkable that even Colin was able to snag these from New York's Henrik Lundqvist, Markus Naslund, Wade Redden and Nikolai Zherdev.

His extra effort paid off, didn't it? I didn't fare as well. Still, though, no complaints. None whatsoever.