Let's get this out of the way...August is the worst month for hockey fans. With Ron Francis manning the helm on Edwards Mill Road, the historic trickle of information has become barely a drip, drip, drip. This in a month where there is almost no news anyway. So we are ultimately left with lots of speculation surrounded by lots of dead space. Yet this is the perfect time to look at what could be and what will be...at least in the sense of what might happen if the stars align and what might happen if cold-hearted reality smacks us in the face.