Brief Update

With the season gradually getting closer, press coverage is starting to get a little better. As they prepare for their initial forays to New York, new Rangers Wade Redden and Markus Naslund speak to reporters back home -- see the National Post on Redden and Expressen on Naslund, with excerpts of the latter better translates at Slap Shot and Rangers Report. Blue Notes has an item on how hockey and politics mix in Alaska -- although if history is a guide, the last presidential candidate who played hockey lost [see photo at right]. Finally, the PEI Guardian talks to Ranger draftee Chris Doyle about the upcoming Traverse City Prospects Tournament.