The lockout doesn't mean you have to stop watching hockey
With the NHL locked out for the foreseeable future, most fans are probably already sifting through YouTube highlight reels of their favorite players in an attempt to hold them over until the League and the Players' Association stop bickering and get back to playing puck. Though just about everyone can be endlessly entertained by
Pavel Datsyuk shooutout highlights or
Jonathan Toews making playoff heroics look easy, any hockey fan knows that the void left by an absence of live action ice hockey is not easily filled. Well, it turns out that just because the NHL has temporarily stopped its operations, doesn't mean hockey has stopped being played all over the world! The KHL regular season is already underway, and the top three major junior leagues in the world that make up the CHL will begin their seasons soon. Here's a list of match-ups in the OHL, QMJHL, and WHL that hockey fans will want to check out over the next month if they need to get their fix.
