For Cole, skating with Canes a start

For Erik Cole, it was a start, nothing more or less. For the first time since suffering his leg fracture, the Canes' forward was back on the ice with his teammates, going through today's morning skate at the RBC Center. Cole wore a gold, non-contact jersey, but he was skating and cutting and getting in some work. "It was just a pregame skate so we knew it wouldn't be anything too strenuous," Cole said. "I was on the ice beforehand, so it was to see if I could do some regular drills, the skating drills." Cole was injured Oct. 3, in the Canes' second game of the regular season against the Boston Bruins. With less than three minutes to play, he collided with the Bruins' Dennis Wideman near the boards, with Wideman's right leg banging into Cole's left leg. Replays of the hit made it appear as if Cole's leg had hyperextended the knee, and he said today that he first believed it was more serious -- possibly a torn anterio...