For me, it is NHL games or bust.

I compare watching any other game, league, etc. to eating generic frosted flakes with soy milk. It tastes the same to some, but to me, I can't stomach it.

I am not discouraging anyone from watching what they want, but I will find other things to do while waiting for the NHL to some day return.

I may even teach Bernie, my African Grey, to say "disgusting lockout", but even his walnut-sized brain knows that by now.