'“I don’t expect him in the near future, but he’s doing great,” Ruff said after practice in the Amherst Pepsi Center. “He’s progressing. He still hasn’t taken part in any type of meaningful . . . he’s out there at a skating pace that’s probably three-quarters of what he can do. He’s done no hard work. “I’ll say it again. He’s getting a lot better. He’s ahead of schedule. Where that puts him, I still don’t know.”'