from Roy MacGregor of the Globe and Mail,

The moment has come for Canada to embrace the NHL lockout.

Think of it as a Betty Ford Clinic for a hopelessly addicted nation.

Think of it as a gift, an opportunity to find new balance in a nation that has, for whatever reasons, come to let its national game matter too much.

How else do you explain that the largest, most powerful generation a country has ever produced, the Baby Boomers, would hold as their most memorable moment – just as a generation of Americans can recall exactly where they were and what they were wearing when President John Kennedy was shot in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 – a puck going into a hockey net in another continent on Sept. 28, 1972?

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