The NHL hasn't gone downhill, it's more popular than ever if you look at the ratings and statistics. Lots of people thought that after the lockout they would lose so many people, but there was record attendance the first year back, and even higher attendance the following years.
Here in Canada, TSN, sportsnet, and CBC show the games. I'm not sure about the US though but they do show it on some big networks because there was enough pull from them to get some of the NHL games to start at times chosen by the networks. And it sure wasn't the Canadian networks that forced the NHL to do that
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