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The Crunch are coming off back-to-back shutouts to play their first of two games before their Christmas break.

If the NHL season doesn't start on time, there are options to get your hockey fix in and around Tampa. And if the NHL does start late, then the league likely has a plan for that already.

Just days ago, the idea of forwrad prospect Mitch Fadden returning to hockey after a blood clot scare was dangled before us. Now? Fadden's career with the Tampa Bay Lightning looks to be over after a DUI arrest in British Columbia.