hockey team opt-out

 i had been looking for more information about the start of the professional hockey season, since i was interested in hearing about the minor-league chicago wolves. i found an article that said the american hockey league season will begin on february 5. not all teams in the league will be playing this year, but 28 of the 31 will be. the three that opted out are in charlotte, NC,  milwaukee, WI, and springfield, MA. it looks like the parent club for one of them, the st. louis blues, has already lined up plans on where to send their players- to Utica, NY, instead of springfield. there are some venue changes as well, likely due to the 'fan ban' in place at their games. the wolves will not be playing at the big arena in rosemont, but at their practice facility in hoffman estates. and four teams were given 'provisional' relocations for the season. i think i drove past the wolves facility in my most recent visit to the metro area in 2019. it was likely on my way to finding a karaoke bar to sing at for the night. there will be five divisions for the league, as there is a newly created canadian division with four teams in it. i looked at a previous article i put in a binder and it said the season was slated to begin in early december, of course this didn't happen. this article was mostly about the wolves signing on with a new parent club, the carolina hurricanes. when it appears that there will be a 'fan ban' for a while at games, the visit to chicago will have to wait and may not happen this season. all the more reason to consider placing an order sooner rather than later for two wolves ornaments for the tree. actually key chains, but i have already re-purposed plenty of key chains this way. in the evening i went on a walk and picked up 73 cents. the 'big bang theory' reruns were when sheldon kissed amy after meeting a weirdo on a train that likes trains as much as sheldon did. it was followed by the one where penny drives sheldon on a date with amy. it is also the one where howard goes to the hospital because of a robot arm. at work the UPS volume went up a little, but i tried harder to get the labels done earlier even though it is hard to do when having to 'babysit' the envelope stuffer at times. and it can get loud which makes it harder to concentrate on other tasks. this was why i left it off when doing a dial-in meeting just before midday.