Jason Samuels claims hockey is doomed and may never recover from its work stoppage.
He asks, If Major League baseball barely survived the 1994 strike, how can hockey?
The two aren’t even comparable. Baseball fans stopped going to games after the strike because they were in love with players, teams and the World Series.
Hockey fans are in love, no, obsessed with the sport and not the league.
The root of this obsession comes from actually playing the game. Anyone who can run and throw a ball can play baseball, football or basketball. It takes a true athlete to have agility, speed, strength and poise on the ice with two blades strapped to their feet.
Just take the sold out minor league games this season as evidence that hockey fans love the sport more than the league.
The NHL will lose a few fans, but hockey won’t come close to losing its fan base.
