NHL and NHLPA reach an agreement - lockout FINALLY over

[The_Doctor10]

Originally Posted by teedubya

Hockey is now the 6th or 7th most popular sport in America... before the first lockout, they were 4th.

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I will guarantee you the NHL is a higher revenue league than MLS and MMA. And perhaps even Nascar, which is just as regional a sport as hockey, btw. Hockey is successful being what it is. Culturally, there is no way in the next twenty-five plus years it will supplant baseball, football, and basketball as America's preferred sporting contest. But it was extremely healthy for what it was before the lockout, and I think that growth is going to continue or at least hold steady. It's very difficult to lose a hockey fan once you're really into it.