Outside the lines

Crayons, by and large, symbolize childhood. I mean, who didn't color as a kid? In fact, one of our first lessons in conformity, should we decide to follow it, is to color within the lines.

In the case of Colin's team sheets, though, it's always a blank sheet. He does his best drawing the logo -- he did an awesome job with this one for the Atlanta Thrashers -- and the players take care of the rest.

The 15 Thrashers players who signed, from left, were Vyacheslav Kozlov, Anssi Salmela, Tobias Enstrom, Ilya Kovalchuk, Eric Boulton, Maxim Afinogenov, Todd White, Bryan Little, Marty Reasoner, Christoph Schubert, Johan Hedberg, Pavel Kubina, Zach Bogosian, Nikolai Antropov and Ron Hainsey.