Does Anyone Really Care?

Except for small market Canada, which for some stupid reason doesn't like beauty pageant winners, I can't imagine that there are a whole of people in this country who really care that the NHL lock out has ended. Even before the lockout, hockey in the US was already in a spiral downturn, and unless the league enacts some drastic rule changes to speed the game up, contracts the number of teams and gets another Wayne Gretzky playing in a big market city, I don't see the NHL surviving for much longer in this country.