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If there's one thing that sucks about sports, it's lockouts. Lockouts mean no games on TV, no dude time, and a greater chance we'll have to spend time with our women learning how to cook cheese fondue and make potpourri centerpieces. That's why we've been pretty annoyed about this whole NHL lockout.

What happens when an uber-talented European illustrator is raised in Canada? You get tons of badass graphic art about hockey, apparently.

While the National Hockey League is still locked out, hockey fans looking for some live puck action can turn to minor league hockey.

There's more to the NHL lockout than players versus owners. The economic impact runs much deeper, and now, a major beer company wants to be compensated. Meanwhile, local businesses, like the Pearl Street Grill, which is usually packed before a home Sabres game, continue to suffer without getting a sniff from the NHL.

Executives at Molson Coors, the oldest and largest beer company in Canada, are not very happy with this whole NHL lockout thing. The brewing giant says the lockout is to blame for a sobering decline in beer sales.

Could it be? Is the end to the NHL lockout finally getting closer? The NHL offered the players union a 50/50 split in hockey related revenue, a drop from the 57 percent that the players received in the past, along with a full 82-game season to begin on November 2 (a money saver so teams won't have to refund season ticket holders).

It's not uncommon for board glass around a hockey rink to break during collisions but this might be the first recorded case of a player's celebration breaking glass.

Hockey is back! Hockey is dead! Today may be the day that we find out which of those statements will turn out correct. The NHL preseason has already been cancelled, and the lockout is about to enter its third week. Stunningly, Friday was the first time the players and the owners have even met to discuss anything since September 15.

It looks like we have another sport involved in another lockout on our hands. This time it's the NHL that is in talks about a new agreement between ownership and players.

Hockey fans screamed in unanimous horror when it was announced that there may be no 2012-2013 NHL hockey season. This lockout means a long "break" from one of the top four mainstream major sports.