And shame on the NHL for the lockout. The players make far too much as it is.
I agree. Unfortunately I think this will eventually happen to all American sports that don't have a salary cap. It already started happening once with baseball and it will happen again. It's hard to stay interested in your team when they are a small market team that will never be able to field a team that is half as good as a big market team because you don't have unlimited money to spend. It doesn't mean the fans don't like their team, it just makes people dis-interested to watch their team do nothing but lose.
Yay for us (I mean them, the players!) it was an interesting game. I loved when they got the trophy and the looks that it got. It seemed like it took a few seconds to decide what to do with it! I thought it looked like it should be in the middle of a buffet melting like a normal ice sculpture, lol!