Unfortunately, I'm not. Writing 2020 previews would be a fool's errand to a half-stocked grocery store. So much has changed. So much will change. So many "what ifs" will continue to happen.
No easy answers exist "in these uncertain times," a phrase frequently uttered these days in emails and television commercials. Everyone sits around to wait and see. Right now, exactly one month away from the official start of the 2020-21 men's hockey season, starting on time seems light years away.
These days what happens in between events are more interesting than the events themselves.
In these uncertain times, normal is anything but. Teams slowly announcing rookie classes for games that are TBD. Games being taken off schedules. Schedules being discussed as to how to fit in an unknown start date. Dates being discussed - Thanksgiving to New Year's in a bubble, New Year's Day onward - as how to safely play a college hockey season.
And that's just for what is currently happening. Normal is not taking the season happening as a given.
