Not gonna prune just any man's chest.
Eric Boulton, the man. The myth. The chest-hair plucker. The breakaway threat. The guy who kept Matt Donovan company in the press box in 2014-15, and [insert your favorite you can't believe they scratched] in 2015-16.
The lifetime Islander.
You knew the Islanders liked having him around, signing him to successive one-year contracts despite ever-decreasing game appearances and occasional break-glass-in-case-of-roster-need IR appearances.
It sounds like they will keep him around into his 40s.
In a Newsday article mostly about forwards who appeared in lots of games and are parts of the on-ice future, Arthur Staple also added this nugget about the man whose name befits a sprinter and whose mere mention makes Lighthouse Hockey's own Michael Willhoft perk up:
He'll be 40 in August but he's probably in better shape than most of the 19-year-old prospects in the Isles system.