61.   The signing period begins today.

62.   The second period began with the Stars finishing up a power play, but it was the Sabres who were taking the offensive.

63.   The spring signing period begins Wednesday.

64.   The signing period begins Saturday.

65.   The survey includes all recommendations that were in place when the survey period began and all new recommendations made during the fourth quarter.

66.   The survey was conducted over a three-week period beginning in January.

67.   The three-day candidate qualifying period begins next Wednesday.

68.   There is every indication that the post-Yeltsin period has already begun.

69.   Then a bureaucratic mechanism must be created to administer it, and the waiting period would begin.

70.   Then the trading period begins, and the scouting combine in Indianapolis follows.