When will hockey season arrive?

I know a lot of people are in the same boat as me: you are anxiously awaiting the start of another hockey season. I am apretty big football fan as well so at least I have that to occupy my time for the next few weeks until the real games start i the NHL, but mostly all NFL coverage is about Tom Brady or ends up being tied to him in some way. For example, you might hear something like "Vince Young has a bad knee so...hey, wait, you know who else has knees? Tom Brady! So yeah, one can only take so much of that. And besides football there's only one other thing really being discussed these days and that is the presidential election which has reached some new level of repetition and dead-horse-beating and is therefore intolerable at best at this point. I did get temporarily excited when everyone started talking about Sarah Palin being a hockey mom, but let's face it, that was only brought up because most of the ignorant, non-hockey-watching public would find it exotic and it would somehow make Sar-Pa, as I call her, worthy of more attention. She does fit the hockey mold, though, I mean, did you see those jaw bones? Put a wig and some lipstick on Mark Messier and BAM! you got yourself a fully vetted running mate. MILF my ass.