Steven Ellis/Daily Faceoff With the way the New York baseball teams are finishing their respective seasons and the dark clouds hanging over the start to the area’s NFL clubs’ campaigns, the hockey season can’t come soon enough. The Devils, coming off their best season in over a decade, are already welcoming their rookies into training camp in advance of this weekend’s Prospects Challenge in Buffalo. New Jersey will play three games in four days against Ottawa, Buffalo, and Boston.