Hockey's back! The evidence was everywhere out at Kettler Capitals on Monday. The GM looked on from on high. All of the organization's coaches were in teaching uniform and out on the ice. Local hockey media (as well as the ABC TV affiliate from Hershey/Harrisburg) arrived in strong numbers. And the stands were basically filled. At 10:30 Monday morning blades brimming with talent hit the ice, and two Zam cuts later, Capitals' vets -- in conspicuous abundance -- followed the organization's prospects and drilled and shinny-scrimmaged for an hour themselves. From top to bottom the organization was inaugurating a new season.Somewhere in the middle of it all I realized: while Labor Day generally is a bit early for the dawning of a new hockey season, every tick of the clock after 10:30 yesterday morning marched the Caps forward toward their 2009-10 destiny. I arrived at the rink in a bit of an "It's too early in the calendar for this" fog; I left four hours later pumped for the start of a ...
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