1.   About an hour south of Clippers Central sits a state-of-the-art sports facility that has hockey but needs hoops.

2.   Can you truly have great hockey without a measure of animosity?

3.   Nashville has NHL hockey.

4.   But not enough to have quality hockey early on.

5.   The resilient Florida Panthers, stifling Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr all game, still have more hockey to play this season.