1.   The new hockey season starts tomorrow... three local teams to follow in the second division...

2.   Among the distinctions to be made between the baseball train wreck and the fender-bender now delaying the hockey season is the pace of negotiations.

3.   Another hockey season has ended.

4.   As the hockey season continued, some players started missing practice.

5.   A week ago at this time, Ian Laperriere was about to start a new hockey season.

6.   After a quarter of a hockey season, trends become visible, even if the statistics are inconclusive.

7.   But in this dismal hockey season of upheaval, and of Eddie no longer being able to stop the rock, stand back and watch what happens next.

8.   But that same track record says when a hockey season is over, Hicks sits down with Bob Gainey and Ken Hitchcock and privately asks hard questions.

9.   Cam Neely will be shuttling between Boston and Atlanta this hockey season.

10.   Can it be hockey season again already?