It's a tough time of year for Nailers defenseman Aaron Titcomb.
Last week marked 25 years since the murder of his 21-year-old father, Albert, when Titcomb was only 18 months old.
"He got into drugs, and it kind of took his life," Titcomb, 26, told me this week. "The community I grew up in, you always had access to something bad. Unfortunately he got caught up in that so I lost him when I was one."
Reports say that a man fatally shot Titcomb's father in the head over a $50 drug debt at a housing complex in Charlestown, a neighborhood in the city of Boston.