Four Things I’m Excited for in 2021

Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports Under normal circumstances it would be quite odd for the Dallas Stars to be opening a season in late January. It is even stranger that the Stars and the National Hockey League are about to cram the 2020-2021 season exclusively in the year 2021.

Is what you would say if the NHL hadn’t prepared us all for this moment with multiple lockouts.

I’m kidding. (Sort of.) Thankfully the word lockout isn’t in the NHL vocabulary for the foreseeable future.

However, the feeling is remarkably similar. A hockey season that was very much in doubt as a global pandemic rages across the globe. It was quite the miracle that the league pulled off its championship tournament in the…