...and speak of the devil, barely had I made the previous post but I get in my E-mail (through a mailing list of Mystics/Wizards STH - I still hold these) some advance-look announcements of 5- and 10-game Caps packages which will go on sale this coming Wednesday (18th).
Some of them don't look too bad - two of the packages in fact contain a Hurricanes visit that falls on my birthday - and aren't too ghastly pricey...but I'm just not sure I want to commit to anything at the Caps right now due to the lock-out threat.