With most looking forward to todays NFL action, let's take a quick look at some Hockey news.

If you didn't know or just forgot, the Rodent continues to count down to the opening face off of the '02-'03 NHL season. By the hour and by the second. Amaze your friends !

JASON DIAMOS is back. OK, I over-reacted again. "Jamie Lundmark, a center who will try to make the team on the wing, and Fyodor Tutin, a big Russian defenseman whose skills remind the Rangers of Sergei Zubov, are the two prospects with the best chance of making the team out of camp."

Here's a preview of the Caps.

You might want to save this link to the Hockey's Future Ranger page even though those bastards don't link to us ;-)

Outsidethegarden has a Power Ranking list.

I don't know if you caught this....Veteran tough guy Stu Grimson will miss the Predators' training camp because of post-concussion syndrome. I bring this up for the obvious reasons.

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