Lockout or Knockout?

If there is a lockout - and I'm not 100% sure there will be, I'll watch more football, basketball, and winter lacrosse. There'll still be college games, and other leagues will get added coverage to make up for the gap. Life goes on. If you want to see a hockey game go to your local rink if you have one. Another year without the NHL won't kill hockey, it might even strengthen it at the core. It won't help the NHL much, but haven't we been down these boards before? This year LA won the cup, not Montreal, not Toronto, not even Edmonton. Doesn't that seem weird on some level? Where is the NHL going? I don't know, does anyone? MLL isn't big enough to compare, and how do you draw similarities between pro lacrosse and pro hockey? I just hope lacrosse keeps growing and doesn't pick up too many negatives at the youth level or up through the college levels. How far we have come from the pond, money now the biggest factor in the sport we all love.  The fans just want to see a good game, some players just want to play no matter what the finance department is doing. You want to change the world, broadcast more college hockey games, and do it well. Make college games the must see. It seems to work in lacrosse, it should work in hockey. What about the AHL you say? Too many fights, already seen better ones in the 70s anyways. Get some good announcers and step up the broadcast production and let's see some hockey that really get the fans into the game. Seems simple, probably isn't. No money, here we go again. Let me know how it turns out, until then, I'll be stringing my stick, not taping it.