The Coming Thing: Rookie Stars Ready To Rise

As I was pounding down a delicious shawarma pita in Jerusalem last week - not the first and not the last one that I scarfed down on my trip - but a stone's throw from the Western Wall, something funny happened.

Out of the noise of tourists, shop owners, sizzling food and hungry cats, there emerged one distinctive sentence, one that rang to the heavens and back:

The NHL lockout just ended!

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