Who will win Stanley this year?

[Reporter]

No hockey this year. How sad. Will we have a partial season? How about next year? Will this make hockey stronger? Or is hockey screwed?:cookoo:

[Mok]

i doubt there will be a season this year, from what i heard, won't have hockey until 2006.

[Focker Singh]

No hockey this year. How sad. Will we have a partial season? How about next year? Will this make hockey stronger? Or is hockey screwed?:cookoo:

Highly doubt there will be any hockey this season...like Mok said, I heard it could be January of 2006.
It will definately hurt hockey as a sport, most of all, its hurting fans such as myself and the business's that rely on hockey. I've resorted to watching the baseball playoffs (which have been entertaining) but if there was a Leaf game on Sat night, I'd rather watch that. The sportsbars, restaurants, parking attendants and even the ushers at the ACC are hurting.
This might turn off a lot of fans like what happened after the baseball strike. Only this time, its the owners locking out the players. I think hockey will suffer for a bit before it returns to normal. Hopefully teams like Calgary, Ottawa, and the other small market teams can stay.

[Jaydog]

i'd probably watch the world series over some early season hockey; it's been really exciting. hope both teams can keep it up after great division championships.

focker brings up a good point about the small markets but at least during the strike they will not be losing money. hopefully, it will not hurt the sport like the baseball strike did. i really doubt it will affect leaf faithfuls though. after all, toronto is a hockey town.

[Focker Singh]

i'd probably watch the world series over some early season hockey; it's been really exciting. hope both teams can keep it up after great division championships.

focker brings up a good point about the small markets but at least during the strike they will not be losing money. hopefully, it will not hurt the sport like the baseball strike did. i really doubt it will affect leaf faithfuls though. after all, toronto is a hockey town.

True Jaydog,
I would watch some WS over early season hockey too, but would be flipping channels.

I'm not worried about hockey cities such as Toronto, Montreal, NY, Chicago, Colorado etc...its Washington, Pittsburg, Carolina etc that will hurt. Fans over there are already not interested in hockey, after this lockout, I bet the team will really hurt. I guess thats why they want revenue sharing like the NFL, but thats another debate alone.