By Shawn P. Roarke - NHL.com Managing Editor
NEW YORK -- Yes, NHL training camps are still the better part of a week away, but hockey season started Tuesday here in midtown Manhattan.

Sixteen NHL stars finished their Labor Day Weekend by arriving in the Big Apple Monday night to kick off two days of media availability promoting what promises to be an eventful 2009-10 season, including the 2009 NHL Compuware Premiere series in Stockholm and Helsinki, the Bridgestone Winter Classic between the Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins at Boston's Fenway Park on New Year's Day and the 2010 Olympic hockey tournament in Vancouver.

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