It was just announced 30 minutes ago. I've never really been an NHL fan but I can imagine how much this sucks for the people that are. To me when they first started to talk about it last season I knew it was gonna happen just because hockey isn't nearly as popular as football or basketball or even baseball ( :-puke: ) and it just didn't really have a good way of coming across to the people who don't really follow it, for example when I first came to the USA 4 years ago I though that American Football was a piece of crap but now I love it and I don't miss any Panthers games and that is because of the great marketing and tv popularity that the NFL has, they are able to gather fans from everywhere. I think the NHL will eventually be back but not this season, and I'm sure there's not gonna be nearly as many teams as before. This is really sad and I hope they get it back up as soon as possible