Hockey is back

Hockey is back in the State of Hockey tomorrow. Two Minnesota Wild games on the shortened scheduled sold out quickly…

… and from what we can tell, this effort was a total bust…

At the height of the lockout, Canada’s Globe & Mail said the lockout was doing “irreparable” harm to hockey, noting that two-thirds of Canadians surveyed no longer cared about the sport.

How does that play out now that the lockout is over?

In Vancouver, the Canucks will extend their sellout streak, there was a “mad rush” for tickets in Calgary, and in Montreal, only 8 of 15,000 season ticket holders canceled their accounts.