| It's about damn time. The pre-season
has begun for what will probably be the only playoff bound team in the metroplex.
The Stars began the pre-season in Tampa Bay with a 5-1 pasting of the hapless
Lightning. By all accounts it was a thing a beauty since I wasn't able to
actually catch it on TV. For some reason, sports bars were more interested
in the battle for the basement that was the Eagles-Cardinals game. AOL doesn't
punt customers as many times as those two teams punted last night. But I
digress. The Stars took the lead just under four minutes into the game when
Mike Modano poked in a rebound past the Bolt's spare netminder. Mind you,
last year at this time I was saying Modano needs to burn in hell if he doesn't
stop being a pretty boy whiner and start being a leader and a gamer. Just
to update everyone, the jury is still out on that. He looked good before
his injuries and pretty OK afterwards, but this season will be the acid test for
him. | ![[ b a t c a v e ]](../Images/batlogo.gif)
