Sports seasons come and go every single year. Hockey Itself lasts over eight months for some teams, but that is not enough for us. The Stars haven't played hockey in three months, and they won't for another three, and it feels like a million lifetimes have passed in the time it has taken for a couple of RFAs to sign appropriate deals. (Oh, and I think there was a trade or something recently, too.)
It is perhaps loathsome of us to complain about the lack of professional sports entertainment when hockey is around so much more often than not.