Sunday short takes

◼ Erik Stock, who hit .371 in three seasons at UConn, went undrafted in 2022. He signed with the Mariners this week and will get his chance this spring. He also took a poke at a critics who said last year he wasn’t a prospect.

◼ It was pointed out this week that Ray Ferraro scored his first NHL goal, along with three assists, for the Whalers in a

10-5 loss to Montreal on Dec.

22, 1984. Ferraro, via Twitter, recalled, “Coach Jack Evans told me postgame I was a ‘threat at both ends of the ice.’ ”

◼ Good to see John Gallagher and UHart come to terms. Enough with litigation. Now Gallagher can recharge his batteries after an emotionally draining couple of years and pursue a new coaching challenge.

◼ Glen Miller, who has coached Saint Joseph’s to a 9-0 start and the No. 1 rank in Division III, believes the NCAA should allow D-III coaches to work with players at the same time it’s allowed in Division I. Right now, that must wait until mid-October. “Once we start school, coaches should be able to work with players a certain number of hours a week,” Miller said. “Our players are going to be in the gym, and I’m going to be at work and athletes at this level should have a similar opportunity to develop with their coaches as Division I.”

◼ In this day and age, calmness and poise can be mocked and the worst of behavior excused as “passion.” That’s why CCSU grad Jerry Edmond’s remaining calm as Raider fans invaded his space and heckled him at the game in Vegas last week went viral and touched a chord. So Edmond was in “someone else’s stadium” wearing a Patriots jersey? So what, are we 12?

◼ Programming note: I’ll reveal my baseball Hall of Fame ballot in next week’s Sunday Read.